On New Year's Eve, 2004, as 27-year-old former special forces soldier Ken Jones attempted the ascent of Moldoveanu, Romania's highest peak, he was caught in a horrific avalanche that tossed him back down the mountain, leaving him with severe injuries including a broken femur and a smashed hip socket. Alone in a snowy wilderness without any way of calling for help he knew his chances of survival were slim.
Darkness Descending is the harrowing and psychologically compelling account of the next four freezing days and nights as he dragged himself to safety, battling constantly with extreme pain, biting cold, and his own, often hallucinatory swings between hope and despair.
