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Halfway To Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest For The Rocky Mountain High (2009)

by Mark Obmascik(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416566996 (ISBN13: 9781416566991)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Atria Books

review 1: Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After their first joint climb, addled by the thin air, Obmascik decides to keep his head in the clouds and try scaling all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains, known as the Fourteeners and to do them in less than one year. An amusing but unimaginative novel.
review 2: Although somewhat annoyed by the flippant style of writing at the beginning of this non-fiction book, I have to say that once past the first chapter I was... more hooked and loved reading it, loved his vivid descriptions of what it's like to climb >14,000 ft mountains, appreciated reading about the histories behind many of these peaks and the people who have climbed them. I've only climbed two of them myself but it makes you want to get out there again and try, try, try. It's a challenge to find other people to hike with because friend's lives are often on different trajectories...it was an eye-opener for me to discover that men have this same problem. What a hard-to-describe emotional high to stand (or sit, or lay down) on the summit of those majestic mountains. I do enjoy Mark Obmascik's style of writing and smile a lot while reading his books. This is an EASY book to read and it may just grab you and head you to Colorado, or your nearest mountain! less

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