The Last SeasonBlehm
352pp/photos ISBN 9780060583019
Stock No. MNU249The poignant story of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson, who became a celebrated ranger in the National Park Service's most adventurous unit. For Morgenson, who honed his mountaineering skills in the Himalayas as a young man, this was morethan a job. It was a calling, and he became fiercely devoted to preventing outside forces from encroaching on the wilderness he loved. But over the years, the isolation he once coveted took its toll and he grew increasingly estranged from his wife andfriends. When, at the height of his struggles, he went missing in Kings Canyon NP, where he had long patrolled, many suspected suicide or foul play. As one of the Park Service's most intensive search-and-rescue operations unraveled, some wondered if theywere searching for a man who did not want to be found. This book is the result of years of research by Eric Blehm to uncover the truth about one of the national parks' greatest mysteries. His reconstruction of a desperate search-and-rescue operationweaved with Morgenson's riveting biography takes readers deep into the heart of the High Sierra and into the little-known and much-romanticized world of the backcountry rangers
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