"Pulled from the brink", Canadian Geographic, January/February 2009

"John Geiger's book, his fifth ... offers an original theory for the evolutionary importance of 'Shackleton's angel.' The chair of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society's Expeditions Committee and an authority on Arctic exploration's greatest cold case -- the fate of Sir John Franklin --Geiger is well positioned to tackle the historical and scientific background of these close encounters of the wild kind...Packed with edge-of-your-seat stories of survival and offer[ing] compelling looks into the transformative psychology of extreme experiences."