Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays from the Vault
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Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays from the Vault
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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As I straddled the highest point, the south face fell away beneath my right boot for twenty-five hundred feet; beneath my left boot the north face dropped twice that distance.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
Brown trout lead anglers into territory where emotion overwhelms judgment.
David Coggins • The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life
The sharks disappeared as each wave rolled toward me; then a new wave would swell above the horizon, containing in it, like scorpions in amber, sharks that roiled and heaved. The sight held awesome wonders: power and beauty, grace tangled in a rapture with violence.
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
(A year later Ball would die of a similar ailment on the slopes of Dhaulagiri.)