Jon Krakauer has selected eight articles and two essays that takes us from a terrible avalanche in the Everest to a volcano that is about to destroy part of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherworldly c...

Jon Krakauer has selected eight articles and two essays that takes us from a terrible avalanche in the Everest to a volcano that is about to destroy part of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherworldly cave in New Mexico studied by the NASA to understand Mars better; from the notebook of one Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo.

The power and quality of the ten stories show the journalistic and literary intensity of one of the guardians of contemporary journalism. His thoughtful narrations take the reader to extreme situations with real characters that live between the challenge and the risk, using a graphic style loaded with dramatism that reflects, on occasions, a tragic reality.