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Three cassettes, 5 hours
A fascinating mixture of adventure and science, LAST BREATH recreates in heart-stopping detail what goes on to your bodies and minds in the perilous last occasions of life when an extreme adventure goes awry.
With a growing number of people setting out to climb snow-capped mountains, swim choppy seas, and hike through dark, dense jungles, extreme deaths and brushes with death seem to have grown to be everyday occurences. A compelling synthesis of science, history, possibility, and prevention, LAST BREATH examines the physiological, psychological, and emotional stages our bodies and minds endure at the brink of death. Listeners will shiver with a guy lost in snowy woods, experiencing
hypthermia, as he tears off his clothes, burning from cold. They will hallucinate with a young woman as she succumbs to a cerebral edema stranded at the top of Anapurna. And while a kayaker tumbles helpless underwater for 2 minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, listeners too will gasp because of their last breath.
