![]() "A hermit thrush broke the alpine silence," he writes about the fateful morning of July 21, 1996, because Randy obliged his future biographer by recording the thrush's presence in his official logbook. ![]() Regardless of the fair answer to that last question, Blehm has written a book. What happened to him? More to the point, is there a book in it? Then he headed out into the backcountry of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in America and disappeared. Randy was a park ranger with a deep love of the outdoors. Eric Blehm, who was a serious High Sierra backpacker, not to mention the editor of a snowboarding magazine, has tried to shape the story of James Randall Morgensen along these familiar lines. So the template for "The Last Season" is unmistakable. When there's not much left of an outdoorsman other than his wristwatch, the details are gruesome, but the story has the makings of a hit. ![]() ![]() nature parables that Jon Krakauer ("Into the Wild") and Werner Herzog ("Grizzly Man") found: mysterious disappearances heightened by the drama of the landscape and its four-legged perils. And some go hunting for the kinds of man vs. Some travelers head for the wilderness in search of adventure. ![]()
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