David Brill’s essays, personality profiles, and articles on science, ecology, the environment, business, health, fitness, parenting, and adventure-travel have appeared in more than 30 national and regional magazines, including National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Health, National Parks, AARP the Magazine, Bicycling, Family Fun, American Way, and Smokies Life. He has written extensively about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Brill has published five nonfiction books. His first, As Far as the Eye Can See: Reflections of an Appalachian Trail Hiker (University of Tennessee Press, 2020), is a collection of essays based on his six-month, 2,100-mile trek of the Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The book is now in its fifth (30th-anniversary) edition, eighth printing. Desire and Ice: Searching for Perspective atop Denali (National Geographic Adventure Press, 2002) recounts the ascent of eight amateur mountaineers to the 20,310-foot summit of Denali (Mt. McKinley), the highest peak in North America and one of the coldest mountains on Earth. The book features the images of National Geographic photographer Bill Hatcher. In 1981, Brill and three other former Appalachian Trail end-to-enders were among the first hikers to follow the then-proposed Pacific Northwest Trail, which stretches 1,200 miles from Glacier National Park in Montana to the Pacific Coast at Cape Alava in Washington. Brill’s most-recent book, Into the Mist: Tales of Death and Disaster, Mishaps and Misdeeds, Misfortune and Mayhem in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, was published by Great Smoky Mountains Association in August 2017 and is now in its fourth printing.
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