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A haunting true story in the spirit of Into the Wild. For twenty-eight seasons, Randy Morgenson patrolled the most remote wilderness of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks — a legendary backcountry ranger, a modern-day mountain man who found his truest self among granite peaks and alpine lakes. In July 1996, he vanished on patrol. The massive search that followed gripped the nation.
Eric Blehm’s The Last Season reconstructs Morgenson’s extraordinary life and mysterious disappearance: the freedom he found in the wild, the demons that followed him there, and the painful questions his vanishing left behind. It is adventure writing at its most humane — thrilling, sad, and impossible to put down. Blehm interviewed everyone — family, fellow rangers, searchers — to reconstruct both the man and the mystery.
For Krakauer fans and wilderness lovers. A modern classic of the genre.
The Last Season
The Last Season by Eric Blehm is a haunting true story in the spirit of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild — the extraordinary life and mysterious disappearance of Randy Morgenson, a legendary backcountry ranger of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
For twenty-eight seasons, Morgenson patrolled the most remote wilderness of the Sierra Nevada, a modern-day mountain man who found his truest self among granite peaks and alpine lakes. In July 1996, he vanished while on patrol. The massive search that followed gripped the nation — and raised painful questions about a man who seemed to belong more to the wild than to the world of men.
Blehm, an award-winning journalist, spent years interviewing rangers, family, and friends to reconstruct Morgenson’s life and final days. Part adventure, part meditation on wilderness and solitude, The Last Season is a deeply moving portrait of a disappearing breed: the backcountry ranger.
Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, this is essential reading for hikers, nature lovers, and anyone drawn to the mysteries of the wild.
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