num_pages: 336
description: If youve run out of Saint-Exupry and miss the eloquent power of his work then you are ready to read David Roberts. Laurence Gonzales author of Deep Survival: Who Lives Who Dies and Why David Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known  he reflects on humanitysand his ownrelationship to exploration and extreme risk. Part memoir and part history this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. What compelled Eric Shipton to return five times to the ridges of Mt. Everest plotting the mountains most treacherous territory years before Hillary and Tenzings famous ascent? What drove Bill Stone to dive 3000 feet underground into North Americas deepest cave? And what is the future of adventure in a world we have mapped and trodden from end to end? In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer Roberts seeks answers with new urgency and penetrating self-analysis ( Booklist ). 3 maps
language: English
title: Limits of the Known
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company