Embrace the Misery Audiobook (Free)

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

In the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that produced Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a volcano in Washington condition; from a wilderness therapy program for teenagers to a fantastic cave in New Mexico so unearthly that is used by NASA to about Embrace the Misery better understand Mars.

In these fascinating essays–first published in the webpages of The New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone, among others–Jon Krakauer displays why he’s considered one of the finest investigative journalists of our time. The articles, gathered together here for the very first time, consider us from an otherworldly cave in New Mexico to the heights of Mt. Everest; from the base of the volcano Mt. Ranier to the Gates from the Arctic in Alaska; in the notebook of one Fred Becky, who has catalogued the best unclimbed mountaineering routes on earth, towards the last days of famous surfer Mark Foo. These extraordinary articles are unified by the author’s interest for character and unrelenting seek out truth.