Looks like a nice hiking trail!

I'd recommend against getting into the books. The first book is fantastic. The second and third only a little less good. Unfortunately from there it's all downhill. Jordan just introduces subplot after subplot and never finishes any of them. Kind of like Game of Thrones. He finally died with it incomplete and a complete mess. Another much better writer came in and tied up the series quickly. Jordan's problem was that the first three books were tightly edited. But then he married his editor and she stopped editing him. So if you get into it, stop after just the first few or you'll be sorry.