Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee

Frozen Head State Park, Tennesse is where the Barkley Marathon is held every year. It is described as having very remote and aggressive terrain. There is no trail for the Barkley Marathon and the terrain is described as having: "A cumulative elevation gain that’s nearly twice the height of Everest. Native flora called saw briars that can turn a man’s legs to raw meat in meters" (92). Frozen Head State Park represents some of the extremes of nature that humans can choose to subject themselves to. The kind of physical and psychological pain that people experience when trying to cross this terrain is the subject of Leslie's thematic exploration in the essay The Immortal Horizon.

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is a country where Leslie lived and worked as a Spanish teacher to local children. She lived outside the city of Granada which is characterized...