This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is currently available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Traditional Krakauer collection.

From your bestselling writer of Missoula and Into the Wild: an array of the singular investigative journalism that produced Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a volcano in Washington state; from a wilderness therapy program for teens to an extraordinary cave in New Mexico so unearthly that is used by NASA to about Loss of life and Anger on Everest better understand Mars.

In these fascinating essays–first published in the webpages of THE BRAND NEW Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone, among others–Jon Krakauer shows why he is considered among the finest investigative journalists of our time. The articles, gathered together here for the first time, take us from an otherworldly cave in New Mexico to the heights of Mt. Everest; from your foot of the volcano Mt. Ranier to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska; in the notebook of one Fred Becky, who has catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on earth, to the last times of legendary surfer Mark Foo. These amazing content articles are unified by the author’s enthusiasm for nature and unrelenting search for truth.