We were lucky none of us are included in this book. Put your infant on the back of a bison or under the nose of a bear for a cute photo? Climb over railings for a better view? Head out hiking drunk and in the dark without any gear? Do you really think the warnings do not apply to you? I well remember stories of my sister in the family station wagon playing patty-cake with a Yellowstone bear through a closed window while our mother looked on in horror and I slept peacefully in the family tent only a few yards away. Many of these deaths are due to people not taking the wilderness seriously, as the author is quick to point out. Wild animals, boiling mud pots, roaring rivers, precipitous drops, exposure, avalanches and even falling trees take their bites out of humanity. The first half of this book is an inventory of man losing the battle against nature.
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