The editors of Outside magazine have selected over thirty essays that together compose some of the finest nonfiction gathered anywhere: Jon Krakauer experiences a deadly week on Everest; Ian Frazier goes bag snagging along the flooded Mississippi; Sebastian Junger reports on the perfect storm; Jane Smiley recalls an adolescent adventure in foxhunting; E.Annie Proulx rides out in search of fun; Thomas McGuane explains his reasons for hunting.
`The best of`The Best of Outside'...are classics in the genre, the measure by which future outdoors writing will be judged.' Seattle Times