num_pages: 320
description: Combining the adrenaline high of extreme sports with the startling facts of physiological reality, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark narrates a series of adventure stories in which thrill can cross the line to mortal peril. Each death or brush with death is at once a suspense story, a cautionary tale, and a medical thriller. Will they survive, or will they succumb? Readers will shiver with a man lost in the snowy woods, suffering from hypothermia and tearing off his clothes as he’s burning up from the cold; they will hallucinate with a young woman stranded at the top of Annapurna as she experiences a cerebral edema; and while a kayaker tumbles helplessly underwater for two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, readers, too, will gasp for their last breath.
language: English
title: Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
titlecomplete: Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
genres: Adventure, Survival, Psychology, Fitness, School, Science, Health, Medicine, Sports, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 632
publisher: Ballantine Books