Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard, even though it’s prose, reads like one long love poem. A love of the world, the search for meaning, and for all the stories in between. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book that reminded me of the words of Edward Abbey and John Muir, but The…
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The Book I’m Not Writing… Yet
I’m in pretty good shape now, but for the better part of the past decade, I dealt with a significant health issue that made life more than a little difficult at times. When things were really rough, I needed to vent, and I posted a lot of entries here on the site, which was not…
These Guys Were Nuts
Reading Bernadette McDonald’s “Winter 8000” There are too many names and facts to fully process in Bernadette McDonald’s Winter 8000. By the end of the first couple of chapters, my head was dizzy trying to keep it all straight. But regardless of the climbers’ names, or the 8000-meter peak they climbed, there is a recurring…
Reading “The White Mountain”
The biggest problem I had with Dan Szczesny’s book, The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washington’s Hidden Culture, is that it introduced me to so many cool people, I could hardly get through a page before I had to google someone or buy their book. After it led me to buy my second book—a collection from…