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Touch the Top of the World recollects Erik Weihenmayer‘s journey of overcoming blindness by climbing among others, Rainier, McKinley, Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, and the mountain of all-Everest as well as learning to rock climb (El Capitan) and ice climb. Weihenmayer’s account is also the story of…

Powering by Sheer Faith: Review of Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See

September 12, 2015

Recently in the Georgia State University (GSU) Magazine an article appeared on the ascent of Mount Baker (approximately 10,786 feet) in the North Cascades in Washington State. Led by GSU’s President Mark Becker and Carson Tortorige, program director of Touch the Earth, GSU’s outdoor recreation program, 9…

GSU Climbs Mount Baker

August 29, 2015

You might ask what Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Seven Summits by Dick Bass and others have in common. It is that human beings have to have a purpose; otherwise, they rot and die. In Ethan Frome, Zenna’s purpose is to care for people.…

Strange Bed Fellows: Ethan Frome and Seven Summits — A Review

May 11, 2014

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Bear Grylls’ account of his summiting of Mount Everest as the youngest member (ripe old age of 23!) part of the 1998 British expedition is so far the best that I have read. I recently reviewed The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev…

Facing Up: A Review

February 22, 2014

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