Thirst: 2600 Miles To Home

National Geographic 2019 Adventurer of the Year.

"Beautiful and deftly written and intimate and searing in its honesty, Anish's is a quest to conquer the trail and her own inner darkness."-Foreword Reviews;

"Filled with ruminative self-reflection, soaring natural descriptions and delightful accounts of the gracious, life-sustaining 'trail magic' of hiking culture, Thirst is a testament to human endurance, inspiring to hikers and non-hikers alike."-Shelf Awareness;By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the

"Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail

(AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)-a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains.