A Short Walk to the Edge of Life: How My Simple Adventure Became a Dance with Death--and Taught Me What Really Matters

A Short Walk to the Edge of Life: How My Simple Adventure Became a Dance with Death--and Taught Me What Really Matters

A Short Walk to the Edge of Life: How My Simple Adventure Became a Dance with Death--and Taught Me What Really Matters

A Short Walk to the Edge of Life: How My Simple Adventure Became a Dance with Death--and Taught Me What Really Matters

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Overview

Chronicling the failures and miracles of a remarkable physical and spiritual passage, A Short Walk to the Edge of Life is the gripping, true story of a man who had to come to the end of himself before he could find his way home.

How could he possibly make it out alive?

It was supposed to be a simple day hike. Scott Hubbartt was a military veteran with years of survival training. Everyone who knew him considered him an expert adventurer.

But Scott's trek into the treacherous backcountry canyons of the Peruvian Andes turned into a desperate fight to survive after he became hopelessly lost. As his eight-hour hike lengthened into days, Scott faced dehydration, hunger, and exhaustion. And that's when his true journey began.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781601426048
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/06/2014
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Scott Hubbartt enlisted in the Air Force at the age of seventeen and later became a decorated combat veteran who rose to the highest enlisted rank. Hubbartt is a graduate of the Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) School and the U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Academy at Newport, Rhode Island. He also holds a master's degree in history and Latin American studies from American Public University. Hubbartt and his wife, Carolina, a native of Perú, have three daughters and live near San Antonio, Texas.

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And So It Begins
(Continues…)



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Table of Contents

Foreword xi

1 And So It Begins 1

2 Searching for a Lost Gold Mine 3

Day 1

3 I'm Off! 15

4 The Puna 25

5 Into the Chasm 37

Day 2

6 Thirsty 51

7 The Green Grove 61

8 Sick 69

Day 3

9 "Hey Scott. You Comin'?" 79

10 The Miracle 91

11 The Box Canyon 97

Day 4

12 The Road 113

13 Final Options 119

Day 5

14 Dance of Death 131

15 Found 139

16 Home 149

17 Reflections 155

Afterword 161

Notes 163

Acknowledgments 164

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