Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled--And Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High

Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that...
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Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled--And Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High by Obmascik, Mark

Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled--And Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High

$248.09

Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled--And Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High

$248.09
Author: Mark Obmascik
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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, Obmascik, addled by the thin air, decides to keep his head in the clouds and try to scale all fifty-four of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains, known as the Fourteeners--and to do it in less than one year. The result is Halfway to Heaven, a rollicking, witty, sometimes harrowing chronicle of an outrageous adventure that is no walk in the park. This "hilarious midlife picaresque" (Publishers Weekly) has garnered wide critical acclaim, was named an "Editor's Pick" by Parade, won the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature, and made one reviewer laugh so hard he "blew beer out of [his] nose" (Colorado Daily). Like the author's critically acclaimed debut, The Big Year, it brings a keen eye and sharp humor to an obsessive subculture: climbers who share the author's crazed passion of scaling all fifty-four of the famed and feared Fourteeners.

Author: Mark Obmascik
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 05/11/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781416567004

About the Author
Obmascik, Mark: - Mark Obmascik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Big Year, which was made into a movie, and Halfway to Heaven. He won the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for outdoor literature, the 2003 National Press Club Award for environmental journalism, and was the lead writer for the Denver Post team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Denver with his wife and their three sons.

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