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These Guys Were Nuts

Posted on January 14, 2026January 14, 2026

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…

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Reading “The White Mountain”

Posted on January 7, 2026January 7, 2026

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…

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Reading “White Mountains State”

Posted on November 6, 2025November 18, 2025

I know I say I don’t really do book reviews, but here I am, finding myself reporting on another one only a week or so after reviewing The Beauty of Ordinary Things. But I can’t help myself. If there’s a book I like—especially if it shines a light on the mountains of New Hampshire like…

Country Bookseller

Lessons From AMC Awards, Signings, and More

Posted on May 31, 2025July 15, 2025

I ended my spring “book tour” of 4000s by 40 last weekend, with a book signing at The Country Bookseller in Wolfeboro, NH. If you haven’t been, it’s a great bookstore with a terrific owner. Three other local authors joined the signing…

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