Ruess

The so-called Ruess remains presented a research opportunity.

NPR Topics: News 2009

The so-called Ruess remains presented a research opportunity.

NPR Topics: News 2009

Mr. Fradkin perhaps better maps the complicated emotional landscape of the Ruess family and the endless ache of their loss.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Two excellent biographies of Ruess now grapple with these questions without resolving them definitively.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Was Ruess eager to lose himself in nature's empty places—to go native and slip away?

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Jon Krakauer was so enamored of Ruess that he wrote a chapter about him in his book "Into the Wild" 1996—a best seller that traced the footsteps of a Ruess-like wanderer named Chris McCandless, whose own pilgrimage in nature ended with his death in Alaska in 1992.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Today you can buy everything from coffee mugs to refrigerator magnets emblazoned with Ruess quotes.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

While neither arrives at any firm conclusions about what happened to young Ruess, both argue that what he did with his short life ultimately matters more than what befell him.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

In "Everett Ruess," Philip L. Fradkin, the author of a dozen books, including a biography of the novelist and nature writer Wallace Stegner, explores similar terrain.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Ruess was the second son of Christopher and Stella Ruess.

Climbing Mount Everett Michael J. Ybarra 2011