by Joe Simpson (1988)
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner Simon Yates had just reached the 21,000-foot summit of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes when disaster struck: Simpson shattered his leg during the descent. In a raging storm, Yates attempted to lower him by rope until Simpson slipped over an ice cliff, hanging into a dark crevasse.
Kevin Fedarko
During catastrophic 1983 runoff flooding at Glen Canyon Dam, river guide Kenton Grua and his two-man crew launched a wooden dory into the raging Colorado River to run the Grand Canyon faster than anyone in history.
Jon Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.
George Lowe and Huw Lewis-Jones
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Mount Everest. Sixty years after that first ascent, the publication of this anniversary book celebrates the most majestic of mountains, with exclusive access to the outstanding imagery and private archives of George Lowe, a key climber and photographer on that triumphant expediton.
Christopher McDougall
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic feats, and cutting-edge science, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico.