Lost Trail: 72 Hours Alone in Deep Wilderness

One wrong turn. One twisted ankle. Seventy-two hours to live. Landscape photographer Will Harper chases the perfect shot deep into Washington's Cascade mountains — and wanders off the trail carrying nothing but a daypack. No tent. Half a granola bar. A phone with no signal. After a wrong turn at a fork and a wrenching fall leave him lost and limping, the mountain starts counting down: a storm is building on the ridge, his food is almost gone, and nobody knows where he is. To survive, Will must use the real skills that save lost hikers' lives: the STOP protocol, staying put so searchers can find him, signaling with three whistle blasts and mirror flashes, building a debris shelter against the killing cold, finding water by heading downhill, and making himself visible from the air. Book Twelve of the Survive the Wild series is a pulse-pounding 72-hour race against exposure, hunger, and despair — plus "The Real Skills Behind the Story," a practical guide to every technique in the tale, and a Lost Hiker Checklist you can build before your next hike. Fiction that could save your life.