Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure-Fast Shipping

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“Forget the edge of your seat. Last Breath takes you to the edge of your life, fora pulse-pounding glimpse into the Great Beyond. There are many ways to risk yourlife in the out-of-doors, and Stark has captured them in exquisite and harrowingdetail.”
–JIM ROBBINS
Author of A Symphony in the Brain

An enthralling blendof adventure and science, Last Breath re-creates in heart-stopping detail what happensto our bodies and our minds in the perilous last moments of life when an extremeadventure goes awry.

Combining the adrenaline high of extreme sports with the startlingfacts of physiological reality, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Starknarrates a series of adventure stories in which thrill can cross the line to mortalperil. 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 shiverwith a man lost in the snowy woods, suffering from hypothermia and tearing off hisclothes as he’s burning up from the cold; they will hallucinate with a young womanstranded at the top of Annapurna as she experiences a cerebral edema; and while akayaker tumbles helplessly underwater for two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes,readers, too, will gasp for their last breath.