Krakauer essencial

Jon Krakauer has selected 8 articles and 2 essays that narrate from a terrible avalanche on Everest to how a volcano is about to destroy a large part of Seattle; from a teenage therapy program in the wild run by seemingly sadistic characters to an otherworldly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars; from Fred Beckey's notebook, who cataloged the best unscrambled mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo. The strength and quality of these 10 stories show the journalistic and literary intensity of one of the flagship writers of contemporary journalism. His reflective narratives transport the reader to extreme situations, through real characters who live between challenge and risk, and he does so through a graphic style loaded with drama that reflects, on occasions, a tragic reality.