**"Forget the edge of your seat. Last Breath takes you to the edge of
your life, for a pulse-pounding glimpse into the Great Beyond. There are
many ways to risk your life in the out-of-doors, and Stark has captured
them in exquisite and harrowing detail."
-JIM ROBBINS
Author of *A Symphony in the Brain
An enthralling blend of adventure and science, Last Breath re-creates
in heart-stopping detail what happens to our bodies and our minds in the
perilous last moments of life when an extreme adventure goes awry.
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**Combining the adrenaline high of extreme sports with the startling
facts of physiological reality, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer
Peter Stark narrates a series of adventure stories in which thrill can
cross the line to mortal peril. 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 shiver with a man lost
in the snowy woods, suffering from hypothermia and tearing off his
clothes as he's burning up from the cold; they will hallucinate with a
young woman stranded at the top of Annapurna as she experiences a
cerebral edema; and while a kayaker tumbles helplessly underwater for
two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, readers, too, will gasp for
their last breath.
