You'd probably enjoy it. It's very funny, and may be found here.

No one's died on the trail since the '80s! (eta: unless you count shipwrecks, which, actually I'd count unprepared boating as much more dangerous than unprepared hiking, as the hikers usually realise they're licked and turn back by day two, and the WCT is an Indiscriminate Destroyer of Joints, striking experienced and ill-equipped alike).