Bøger af Gerry Roach

Join Gerry on his multi decade quest to climb every major North American peak over 16,000 feet. In height order, these peaks are Denali, Logan, Orizaba, Saint Elias, Popo, Foraker, Izta, Lucania, King, Steele, Bona, Blackburn, and Sanford. Gerry was the first person to summit this list of peaks. In true Gerry form, he adds in ten Extra Credit peaks as well. The book contains a whopping 229 photos, and 5 maps. This is an adventure book for serious mountaineers and armchair mountaineers alike. Clip in, and join the fun!

In part two of his gripping autobiography, world-class climber Gerry Roach continues his action-packed tales of mountaineering around the world. His stories are laced with a hard-edged reality that is tempered by his spiritual growth. Ride the Breath follows his continuing quests, picking up where his first book, Transcendent Summits, ends.This candid memoir takes you to some of Earth's most captivating peaks and lands: the Tetons, the North Cascades, the Canadian Rockies and Yukon, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, the Antarctic, Rainier, Iceland, Norway, the Alps, Africa's fabled Kilimanjaro, the Australian outback, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Hawaii. In each of these stories, Gerry better defines the edges between risk and reward, lust and loss, dreamtime and terrortime and, perhaps most important, transcendence and transgression. Gerry has a unique ability to takes his readers into the mountains with him and hold them on multiple belays. In the end, the life lessons learned transcend his climbs, allowing Gerry to include his readers on his climb for peace, which becomes an ever-growing Odyssean exploration. 348 pages total. This Black and White edition has 166 Black and White photos.