01409cam a2200361 4500 57141196 TxAuBib 20040810120000.0 040810s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780345441515 0345441516 (OCoLC)731299412 TxAuBib Stark, Peter. Last Breath : The limits of adventure. First trade paperback ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2001. 300 p. Best selling sports/outdoor book on Amazon.com for 2001. In this book, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark reenacts the dramas of what happens inside our bodies, our minds and our souls when we push ourselves to the absolute limits of human endurance. Deaths and near-deaths from hypothermia, drowning, mountain sickness, avalanche, scurvy, heatstroke, falling, predators, the bends, cerebral malaria and dehydration. 20040810. Adventure and adventurers Health aspects. Death. Catastrophe. Freezing. Drowning. Mountain sickness. Avalanche. Scurvy. Heatstroke. Dehydration. TXKAR