Survival

Book Review—Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Survival

You would have had to be living under an 800-pound rock to have missed the national news coverage of Aron Ralston’s 2003 self-amputation. It seemed inevitable that he would write a book about the experience, but who knew he’d mine 350 pages worth of memoir out of the 6-day ordeal? Maybe he was being paid [...]

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Book of the Month—Four Against the Wilderness

Ocean adventure

Being shipwrecked stinks. A lot of ocean survival literature is about shipwrecks, but there is a certain sameness to most stories. “I was sailing along happily. Suddenly there was a boom or crash or water filling the cabin. I had to hit the eject button. Then I bobbed around in the sea for __ days [...]

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