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Harley Rustad
Lost in the Valley of Death: Seeking Justin Alexander Shetler, (encore) March 09, 2023
Harley Rustad recounts the life of Justin Alexander Shetler, an American man who vanished in India’s Parvati Valley in 2016. Shetler, described as a sort of “lost boy” by his friends, was on a spiritual quest, one that caused him to push himself to greater and greater extremes and eventually, fatal danger.

Rustad recounts his journey to India to trace Justin Alexander Shetler’s footprints and describes how the 35-year-old embarked on a perilous hike as a disciple of a holy man he barely knew. In the end, two men went up to the sacred lake, but only one came back.

Harley Rustad. Author, most recently of Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas, and features editor at The Walrus magazine. His writing has appeared in Outside magazine, The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, Geographical, the Guardian, CNN, and elsewhere. He is also a faculty editor at the Banff Centre's mountain and wilderness writing residency, and the founder of the Port Renfrew Writers’ Retreat. and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.


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