Mckay Jenkins

What's Gotten into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World

by Mckay Jenkins

What’s Gotten into Us? is a deep, remarkable, and empowering investigation into the threats—biological and environmental—that chemicals now present in our daily lives.

Do you know what chemicals are in...

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands

by Mckay Jenkins

In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them....

The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone

by Mckay Jenkins

In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy...

The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America's First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler's Europe

by Mckay Jenkins

When World War II broke out in Europe, the American army had no specialized division of mountain soldiers. But in the winter of 1939–40, after a tiny band of Finnish mountain troops brought the invading Soviet...