Download or read book Waking Up written by Terry L. Wise and published by Pathfinder Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise recollects her near fatal suicide attempt following the death of her young husband from Lou Gehrig's Disease. This account of the entire process navigated through therapy is told from the rare perspective of the patient, yet is written for people who sit on both sides of the couch.
Download or read book Climbing Out of Depression written by Sue Atkinson and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being depressed often leaves you feeling paralysed into inaction. Climbing back out of the pit of gloom seems almost impossible. You need help, and that is what this book offers - practical, humane and spiritual help. Sue Atkinson has suffered years of depression herself. She does not write as an expert on depression or as a depression counsellor, but as someone who knows the feelings from close personal experience. As a result, her book contains a varied menu of hints, quotations and illustrations, not page after page of unbroken text. This is a book to dip into as fits your mood and need, making a dependable guide to the climb.
Download or read book American Climber written by Luke Mehall and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Climber is a memoir loaded with epic climbing stories and adventures. It contains two underlying themes: a compelling narrative of Mehall's tumultuous journey to climbing that ultimately saved his life, and a detailed look at the American dirtbag climbing culture, which has never truly been examined in a memoir. "I started climbing during a time when people traveled and lived to climb. They scraped together anything they could and lived out of cars, trucks, tents or vans. Climbing was not only a lifestyle for them, but a purpose for life. With the popularity of climbing skyrocketing, a lot of this soul has been diluted or lost. Luke does an incredible job at capturing the essence of why so many of us climb, why so many of us devote our lives to this sport and lifestyle. It's these people that are the lifers, that keep the soul and character alive, and now there is a great memoir documenting one person's journey through it." Beth Rodden, climbing legend, prolific El Capitan first ascentionist "Luke Mehall emerged as a writer just in time to chronicle the dwindling light of the soul-climber: one who climbs for the aesthetics, who adventures for the freedom not the recognition, who's hi-tech gear is merely a tool rather than a totem. Luke and his cohorts embody the dream of the American West with all its promise of freedom and risk and reward. To dive into a Mehall book is to be brought along on a ride that we all wish we had the courage to board, but most of us trade that courage for comfort." Chris Kalous, host of the Enormocast podcast Luke Mehall is one of the few adventure writers out who handle the tricky first person voice as if it were made for him. John Long, climbing legend and Senior Contributing Editor, Rock and Ice Who's more in tune with the ethos of the dirtbag-and more able to write passionately and honestly about it-than Luke Mehall? I think no one. Brendan Leonard of Semi-rad.com, and author of 60 Meters to Nowhere and New American Road Trip Mixtape "American Climber isn't just about climbing; it is a strong and well-told story about climbing out of the gray cave of existential depression that infects so many young people today, an always-honest account of finding meaning in his life not through disposable McJobs or the standard-issue American dream, but through self-medicating on nature and nature's challenges, where the true highs of life and living are hard-earned doing strange things in strange places with a band of brothers and sisters equally disaffected but spirited. I've previously said that Mehall could be the Kerouac of his generation; with American Climber, he's there." George Sibley author of Dragons in Paradise and Water Wranglers, longtime contributor to the Mountain Gazette
Download or read book The Mountain of My Fear written by David Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of first ascent of west face of Mt. Huntington, Alaska, in 1965.
Download or read book Touching the Void written by Joe Simpson and published by Direct Authors. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Download or read book Resurfacing written by Barbara Troutz and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurfacing was written out of quiet times with God, while going through the loss of a son. During these quiet times, the author deepened her faith in the God who cares about the details of her life and wanted to use the tragedy for His eternal purpose. Each person who loses a loved one grieves in his or her own way, based on the relationship and personalities. This book is offered to give hope to those who are hurting and who need direction in the storms of life, no matter what those storms are. This book takes normal, everyday circumstances and situations and uses them to see God, while using Scripture to address the solutions and directions found in God's Word. Resurfacing is meant to comfort, to encourage, to give hope.
Download or read book Dark Shadows Falling written by Joe Simpson and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Concise, objective account of the 1996 Everest debacle * One of Simpson's most controversial and challenging books * Short listed for the 1997 Boardman Tasker Award In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die alone high on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from the security of their tent thirty yards away. Some film footage of his corpse was later shown on television. Why did these onlookers not hold the dying man's hand and comfort him? The answer appalls Joe Simpson, who was himself left for dead in a crevasse at the foot of Siula Grande in Peru in 1985. It is an uncomfortable ethical question that he is forced to confront as he attempts a difficult new route on Pumori, with a clear view of the whole South Col from close to the vantage point where Eric Shipton first spotted the way up the south side of Everest taken by Hillary and Tenzing in 1953. Now that Everest has become the playground of the rich, where commercial operators offer guided tours to the top up fixed ropes, camping amidst the detritus and unburied corpses of previous less fortunate climbers, Simpson wonders if the noble, caring instincts that once characterized mountaineering have been irrevocably displaced as in other facets of today's society. On investigation, he finds it a less black and white issue that at first it seemed. "I shall never forget the horror of dying alone, the awful empty loneliness of it," he says. Yet his empathy for the victims of storms, altitude sickness, or misjudgments, is tested time and again as he explores anecdotally and in conversations with his companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.
Download or read book Darkness Descending written by Ken Jones and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2003, Ken Jones, an adventurer and former British Special Forces soldier, was caught in a devastating avalanche as he climbed deep in the frozen wilderness of Romania's Carpathian Mountains. Swept over the edge of a 75-foot cliff, he plummeted to the rocks below. Against all odds, he survived the fall--regaining consciousness shrouded in darkness and sub-zero temperatures, separated from his supplies, and in excruciating pain from a broken leg and shattered pelvis. With frostbite and internal bleeding beginning to take their toll, Jones summoned his deepest will to live and began three agonizing days dragging himself over frozen terrain to safety--only to discover that his true ordeal was yet to begin. The doctors who initially treated him were astonished that any person could sustain such massive trauma and exposure and still be alive. Then, after an initial round of extensive surgeries and recoveries that equaled if not exceeded the pain of the injuries themselves, Jones was told he would almost certainly never walk again. Over the next two years he endured constant physical therapy and additional surgery, with latent effects from the fall still threatening his life. At one point, he slipped into unconsciousness under anesthesia just as he heard a doctor telling his mother he was going to die. But with a soldier's heart he made his way to recovery, regained full mobility, and has made his story known in this remarkable book. In the bestselling tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, Darkness Descending is a classic tale of triumph over adversity and what it means to never give up. Jones's remarkable feat has already been featured on Animal Planet's hit series I Shouldn't Be Alive, and stands tall as an unforgettable testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Download or read book Realms of Darkness written by Kev Carter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE THIRD IN THE DARKNESS SERIES, WE FOLLOW RAY INTO A DARK SUPERNATURAL WORLD WHERE HE MUST FACE ALL HIS PAST CONQUESTS AS THEY UNITE TO DESTROY HIM. HE MUST CALL ON HIS ANCESTOR, KADEN TO HELP HIM FIGHT AND SURVIVE THIS CHALLENGE. BODE AND CHRISTINE ARE WITH ONCE AGAIN TO HELP OVER COME AND DEFEAT THE HARDEST AND MOST TERRIFING ORDEAL YET.IN THIS WORLD WHERE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AND HE AS NO CONTROL IT WILL TAKE ALL HIS STRENGTH AND UNIQUE KNOWLEDGE, AND WARRIOR FIGHTING SKILL TO SURVIVE..
Download or read book Climbing to Freedom written by Dick Dorworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of intensely personal stories of climbing, rock climbing and alpinism, around the world, by one of Americas best mountain writers. Dorworth also includes portraits and profiles of some of the most important American climbers of recent times, a series of meditations and reflections on the climbing life. And finally, the book concludes with two imaginative works of mountaineering fiction.
Download or read book Holding the Hand of Darkness written by Arthur Hood and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fifties the Cold War grew around us. Insidious, it rose to a crescendo in October of 1962 when John Kennedy proved the concept of peace by maintaining overwhelming deterence. The men who provided this deterence were professionals who believed in the righteousness of their country and the honor of its leaders. In the decades that followed that honor eroded. For whatever missguided reason Lyndon Johnson chose to escalate American presence in Vietnam even though Kennedy chose to pursue a policy of withdrawal prior to his assasination. Our professional military was not privy to the political maneuvering that was taking place, as Johnson was lying to the American public about the Vietnam buildup. We began covert ground and air operations in 1964. These operations were denied by the government but escalated continuously to the end of the war, with covert operations continuing for some years after the peace agreements. After the 'ghost attacks' by North vietnamese gun boats on August 4, 1964 congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, abdicated its Constitutional duty to make any declaration of war and handed that decision to the President. This step, incidentally, deprived the American fighting man the legal protection of the Geneva Convention. This book reflects the attitude of the professionals who were tasked with prosecuting this war. I have chosen three incidents that I was personally familiar with and researched them in detail. They are the shoot down of Whaler Five Seven, Red Marker Four and Owl Seven. We have learned nothing from the mistakes of this war.
Download or read book One Way Home written by Edward Cerda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Way Home is an adventure of excitement and fast moving thriller.One Way Home involves a special squad of American soldiers sent into the jungles of Vietnam to terminate enemy soldiers that can ́t be killed by contemporary means. A highly trained combat sergeant leads his squad into an adventure of horror and a constant test of their individual survival skills against all odds. This adventure involves the unexpected battle with zombie soldiers as well as a clan of vampires whose only desire is to make these American soldiers into MIA statistics. One Way Home is full of action from the start to the finish. There ́s blood and guts spilled throughout the jungles of Vietnam by both sides. Only the experience of one combat sergeant can save his squad from doom and the failure of their assignment. In the coming months look for the continuation sequel of this adventure which takes our combat sergeant and his men deeper into the jungles of Vietnam only to meet their next enemy face to face in "FULL MOON".
Download or read book The Rock Climbers written by Jack Kantorczyk and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book entitled, The Rock Climbers, is about a dangerous expedition as seen through the authors eyes. That expedition was started in July, 1974 to Pirin Mountains located in southern Bulgaria, to prepare young people for the difficult tasks in their later years, into climbing the highest mountains in the world. As those people might operate later in the stressful climbing conditions they, need to be check their mental usefulness to stay for a long time in the mountain environment during dangerous climbing. The author, in a very interesting way, described the vagaries of natures and difficult crisis situations they had to defeat as well, he described in details about his personal experience during expedition and accompanying him, were his partners. Even the climbing of vertical walls is extremely serious business, and at the moment of climbing, the border between life and death is often very thin, still wins passion, willingness to compete, check themselves and their own possibilities. Undoubtedly, the book The Rock Climbers, is worthy of the attention not only people who are interested of mountains and the climbing thrill, but everyone else who likes story associate with mystery and adrenalin feeling.
Download or read book Nerve written by Eva Holland and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: A striking, widely praised work of experiential reportage on surmounting paralyzing fear
Download or read book Dark Against the Sky written by Stephen B. Hauge and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Against the Sky is the story of a band climbing boys in London in 1834. The arc of their adventures follows the main character, Tommy, as he struggles to find and be re-united with his father, faces the daily challenges of life as a climbing boy ruled by callous master sweeps, and interacts enjoyable with friends and street folk. Though his story is often darkened by his work an the period, it is brightened and ultimately redeemed by his growth in his journey and the humanity he shares with his band of brothers.
Download or read book Dark Queen Waiting written by Paul Doherty and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Urswicke must unmask the traitor lurking amongst Margaret Beaufort’s supposedly loyal followers in this gripping medieval mystery. October, 1471. Edward IV sits on the English throne; the House of York reigns supreme. With her young son, Henry Tudor, in exile in France, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, shelters deep in the shadows, secretly plotting for the day when Henry can be crowned the rightful king. But as her supporters are picked off one by one, it becomes clear that a traitor lurks within Margaret’s household. When one of her most loyal henchmen, Jacob Cromart, is murdered in St Michael’s Church, where he had claimed sanctuary, Margaret orders her sharp-witted clerk, Christopher Urswicke, to find out who has betrayed her. How could a man be killed inside a church where the doors are all locked, with no sign of an intruder or weapon? If he is to protect Margaret’s remaining supporters from suffering a similar fate, Urswicke must solve a baffling mystery where nothing is as it first appears.
Download or read book Dark Places Evil Faces written by Mark Lumby and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Places, Evil Faces is Volume 2 in this Horror and Dark Suspense anthology series. Including works of fiction by Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Graham Masterton, Joe R. Lansdale, Jack Ketchum and many more. All the proceeds raised from the sale of this book will be donated to Rethink Mental Illness.
