Things I Learned from Falling

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The gripping first-person account of one woman’s survival in Joshua Tree National Park against the odds.

In 2018, writer Claire Nelson made international headlines when she fell over twenty-five feet after wandering off the trail in a deserted corner of Joshua Tree. The fall shattered her pelvis, rendering her completely immobile. There Claire lay for the next four days, surrounded by boulders that muffled her cries for help, exposed to the relentless California sun.

In Things I Learned from Falling, Claire tells not only her story of surviving, but also her story of falling – what led this successful thirty-something to a desert trail on the other side of the world, alone, where no one knew she would be that day.