Extreme Wilderness

Some monsters wear tactical gear. Others wear fur. Tony Ward retreated to the freezing peaks of the Beartooth Mountains to escape his grief. Operating as a solitary lookout, he wanted nothing more than to be left alone with the biting wind and the silent snow. His isolation shatters when a dying elk leads him to tracks far too massive to belong to any known animal. Then the storm hits. Trapped in a sudden, brutal blizzard, Tony discovers he is not the only one tracking the beast. A ruthless paramilitary team led by the cold-blooded Commander Reed has descended on the mountain. They are ...

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Denali's deadliest face. One man. No backup. No way out. Search and rescue specialist Silas Kincaid has pulled the dying off Denali's worst faces. He's never pulled them out of a conspiracy. When a solo climber's distress call leads him to a crashed plane and a cargo of encrypted financial records, Kincaid becomes the only thing standing between a ruthless mercenary named Kane and the survivors who witnessed something they weren't supposed to see. Minus forty. Whiteout incoming. No backup. The mountain will kill you if you stop moving. Kane will kill you if you don't. The White Tomb — the...

A hiker goes down in the rugged Cumberland Plateau. A sudden strike occurs in the remote Australian outback. A fatal encounter takes place in rural India. When the world’s most lethal predators strike, the human body becomes a battleground. This gripping collection of real-life clinical emergencies takes you to the bleeding edge of toxicology and human endurance. Featuring incredibly detailed case studies—from the devastating physiological effects of a Russell’s viper bite to the desperate scramble for African polyvalent antivenom in an American hospital—this book pulls back the ...

Dr. Elena Vasquez knew the Prometheus Research Station was hiding secrets, but she never imagined the true scale of the disaster waiting in the containment pens. Deep within the oppressive heat of the Darién Gap, an illegal biological project has achieved horrifying success. The specimens are highly intelligent, systematically learning the weaknesses of their human handlers, and perfectly adapted to hunt in the dense tropical environment. When the primary perimeter fences are deliberately compromised, the isolated facility is instantly transformed into a deadly trap. Captain Cole and his ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies—from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and the upcoming Pretty Things. “Watch Me...

In the autumn of 1967, five heavily armed men ventured into the dense, fog-choked forests of Northern California. They thought they were hunting a legend. They were wrong. The peaceful giant they sought wasn't a discovery—it was a decoy. When the tracking expedition is ambushed in the remote wilderness, the hunters quickly realize they have stepped into a highly evolved trap. Stalked by an intelligent, hyper-violent apex predator that uses the famous myth as camouflage, the group is systematically torn apart. To survive the suffocating silence of the ancient redwoods, they must fight ...

The water took everything. Then it brought something worse. When a catastrophic storm floods Blackwater Parish, wildlife expert Maria Callen is dispatched into the deluge to coordinate triage. The roads are gone. The power is out. And the rising tide has completely cut off a group of stranded civilians at the Miller’s Ford visitor center. But the floodwaters haven't just washed away the town—they’ve unearthed a sealed karst system deep beneath the mud. Now, something prehistoric is hunting in the shallows. Trapped in the rising deluge with a dwindling group of survivors, Maria must ...

Brianna Maddox has spent eleven seasons studying survival television. She knows exactly what it takes to endure the harshest environments on earth. When she is dropped into the remote canopy of Black Hollow Mountain for a high stakes wilderness competition, she believes she is ready for anything. She is wrong. The backcountry hides a terrifying secret. Deep in the ridges where no roads reach, an apex predator claims the territory. The heavy knocking starts in the trees. The enormous footprints circle her camp. Soon, Brianna realizes this is no longer a television show. It is a hunt. ...

When the sky opens and the ground vanishes, there is no time to negotiate. Nature’s most violent phenomenon strikes with the speed of a bullet and the weight of a mountain, transforming familiar landscapes into lethal corridors of debris and water. This is a visceral exploration of the terrifying physics that govern sudden rising water and the structural failures that follow. Witness the harrowing reality of these events through a minute-by-minute examination of how high-velocity currents interact with narrow canyons, failing dams, and human infrastructure. This narrative dives deep into ...

The ice is breaking. The apex predators are starving. And the storm of the decade has arrived. Nineteen years of roaming the frozen northern coastline taught the old polar bear every sign of danger. But he has never faced the scent now drifting from the treeline. A massive grizzly, driven out of his natural range by hunger and shifting climates, has entered the frozen wastes. Caught in the crosshairs of this unnatural collision is a remote scientific research outpost. Theresa, Jonah, and Anik have front row seats to the changing ecosystem. When a catastrophic blizzard buries their compound,...

They survived the crash. But the ice belongs to something else. Nora Averill didn’t want to be on the Osprey Air tour. She just wanted a distraction from her exhausting life. But when their helicopter goes down in a blinding whiteout on a remote Alaskan ice field, Nora and the other stranded passengers find themselves thrust into a brutal fight against freezing temperatures and dwindling supplies. Led by Gideon Cole, a man whose quiet intensity suggests a dangerous past, the group makes a desperate trek toward an abandoned research station. They think finding shelter means they’ve won. ...

You arrived. Something else noticed. “A slow-burn nightmare that gets under your skin and doesn’t let go.” “Tense, unsettling, and impossible to put down.” Colton and Emma took the job for the quiet. A remote hunting and fishing lodge deep in the Canadian wilderness. Six months cut off from the world. No distractions. No noise. No people. Just the two of them. At first, everything feels exactly as it should. The lodge is clean. Systems are running. The forest is still. Too still. There are no animals. No wind across the lake. No signs that anything has passed through in days. And ...

Years after losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle crash, Robert Kull traveled to a remote island in Patagonia's coastal wilderness with equipment and supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he'd been seeking all his life.

The storm is cover. The killer is already on the mountain. When whistleblower Dale Fitch flees into the Denali backcountry carrying evidence that could bring down Vance Industries, he thinks the mountain will protect him. He's wrong. A professional hunter named Brecht is already on the glacier. The storm closing in will ground every helicopter within three hundred kilometers. And the only man standing between Fitch and a corporate cover-up is SAR specialist Silas Kincaid — who doesn't know any of this yet. Zero visibility: the weather condition. The operational state. The corporate policy...

The ice held a secret for ten thousand years. Now, it’s awake. When a high-altitude corporate retreat at an isolated Rocky Mountain lodge is severed from the outside world by a catastrophic whiteout storm, the survivors think their biggest threat is the plummeting temperature. They are wrong. Deep in the abandoned underground research tunnels beneath the ski station, something ancient and hungry has been thawed from the permafrost. It is not a myth. It is Arctodus simus—the giant short-faced bear, an apex predator standing twelve feet tall and built for relentless slaughter. As the ...

Welcome to Surviving in the Yucatan, the ultimate guidebook to mastering the art of survival in the stunning and challenging Yucatan Peninsula. Are you looking for an adventure that will take you off the beaten path and into the heart of the jungle? Perhaps you’re planning a trip to the Yucatan and want to be fully prepared for whatever comes your way. Or maybe you simply want to expand your survival skills and learn from the masters of self-reliance. Whatever your reason, this eBook is the resource to guide you through every step of surviving in the Yucatan. From the basics of shelter ...

Always be prepared: essential tips and tricks for keeping safe and surviving in the outdoors. Whether you’re going for a leisurely hike or setting off into the wilderness, there is nothing more important than being properly prepared. Being knowledgeable about survival techniques can be the...

Whether you are faced with an extreme survival situation, or you're simply wanting to obtain animals without hunting or trapping, this book will show you how to find, process, and preserve meat without anything but a knife. You'll learn how to safely assess an animal carcass to determine whether it's safe to eat - a vital skill that could save your life. There are also special sections on roadkill and making pemmican - the most nourishing and long-lasting survival food. The instructions contained within this book are well tested, and easy to follow, as Tamarack and his family have lived for...

In the unforgiving wilderness of the Arctic, survival is more than a challenge—it's a battle for life and death. When a scientific expedition to the North Pole goes horribly wrong, Dr. Tom Clark is left as the sole survivor. His entire team has perished, swallowed by a yawning chasm beneath the ice. Now, isolated and with no means of communication, Tom must trek across 35 miles of frozen wasteland to reach the closest base camp. But the brutal cold isn’t the only thing hunting him. A starving polar bear, desperate to feed her cubs, stalks Tom through the blinding snow. With every step, ...