About the book: 1987 / A man at the limit of his capabilities, in an extreme situation, a decisive man - this is exactly the hero of the young Moscow prose writer Yuri Starostin. The stories in the collection are action-packed, and this is no coincidence, because they tell about the harsh life of field expeditions, about the complex relationships of people who have been torn away for a long time from their native places, from home - surveyors, topographers, climbers working in the tense conditions of Yakutia and Kamchatka. Yuri Starostin - participant of the VII All-Union Meeting of Young Writers.