The gorge - three times deeper than the Grand Canyon - is sacred toīuddhists, and is the inspiration for James Hilton’s Shangri La. He chronicled what has beenĬalled The Last Great Adventure Prize for Outside, and in his book Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. Treacherous Tsangpo Gorge in Eastern Tibet. Whitewater expedition in history as it made its way through the In the winter of 2002 he joined, on the ground team, the most ambitious
Some of these stories can be found in Set Free in China, Sojourns on the Edge. Worker, logger, offshore fisherman, kayak instructor, river guide, and “The Psalms of Malvine.” He has worked as a dishwasher, construction In fiction and poetry, he won a Michener fellowship for his epic poem Traveled the world as an expedition kayaker, writing about challengingĭescents in the Pamirs, the Tien Shan mountains, the Caucuses, CentralĪmerica and Peru.At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received an MFA New Hampshire where he became an outdoorsman and whitewater kayaker. He attended high school in Vermont and Dartmouth College in He is an award winning adventure writer and the author of four books of Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a contributing editor at Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure.
Published August 7th 2012 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Meets, and in himself-is both better and worse than anything he could But what he encounters and what he must face-in the people he To get him home-following the trail of the static-broken voice on the Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return-not enough fuel Through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that aīetter life-something like his old life-exists beyond the airport. But when a random transmission somehow beams Or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield Small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. Willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and Of a pilot surviving in a world filled with loss-and of what he is Powerful debut novel from an award-winning adventure writer: the story
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