Securing the Shadows: Notes on Mountains, Loss, and Danger

A fearless quest to understand what we risk when we heed the call of the wild.

“Stevenson plays his stories like a rope taut with the weight of his character’s lives. You sense every subtle slackening and sudden pull. Like any good climb, his narratives become mysterious, ghostly. Out of solid rock comes magic.”

—CRAIG CHILDS, The Wild Dark

In his memoir-in-essays, David Stevenson considers the risks and rewards of a life climbing mountains in light of the mysterious drowning of his adventu...