Limits of the Known Audiobook (Free)

A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great journeys and explorations, past and present. David Roberts, ‘veteran mountain climber and chronicler of journeys’ (Washington Post), has spent his profession documenting voyages to the most intense landscapes on earth. In Limits from the Known, he demonstrates on humanity’s-and his own-relationship to intense risk. Part memoir and component history, this book tries to make feeling of why a lot of have dedicated their lives towards the eager about Limits from the Known quest for experience. In the wake of his analysis with throat tumor, Roberts seeks answers with sharp fresh urgency. He explores his very own lifelong commitment to adventuring, as well as the social contributions of explorers throughout history: What particular forms of courage and commitment did it consider for Fridtjof Nansen to survive an eighteen-month journey from an archive ‘farthest north’ without supplies and a single rifle during his polar expedition of 1893-96? What compelled Eric Shipton to come back, five times, towards the ridges of Mt. Everest, plotting the mountain’s most treacherous territory years before Hillary and Tenzing’s popular ascent? What drove Expenses Stone to dive 3,000 foot underground into North America’s deepest cave? What motivates the explorers we most admire, who are prepared to embark on perilous journeys and force the limits of the human body? And what is the future of adventure in a world we have mapped and trodden from end to get rid of?