Peak Marcello has scaled New York City skyscrapers, climbed Mount Everest, and suffered an ill-fated expedition in the Pamirs of Afghanistan (Peak, rev...
A younger read in the vein of Jennifer Armstrong's Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World or Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Add this straightforward but finely researched account whereever true survival stories are popular.