Classic Krakauer: ‘Mark Foo’s Last Ride,’ ‘After the Fall,’ and Other Essays from the Vault Audiobook (Free)

Spanning an extraordinary range of subject areas and locations, these ten gripping essays display why Jon Krakauer is known as a standard-bearer of modern journalism.

His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Support Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a huge chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy system run by apparent sadists for an otherworldly cave in New Mexico, analyzed by NASA to better understand Mars; from your notebook of 1 Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on earth, to the last times of renowned surfer Mark Foo. Combining work originally published in such magazines as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian-all rigorously explored, vividly written, and marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop-Classic Krakauer powerfully demonstrates the author’s ambivalent romance with unruly scenery and his relentless search for truth.