Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

by Andrea Lankford

A year later, in 1971, he published a book about his achievement, the earliest recorded thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. The High Adventure of Eric Ryback sold over three hundred thousand copies, making the first PCT memoir a bestseller.

According to Miller, if you licked your finger to turn a page in this book, you may have deposited a DNA sample hardy enough to be detectible for decades.