Halfway to Heaven
My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
$40.68
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2010
Summary
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 Colo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416567004 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416567003 |
| Author: | Mark Obmascik |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 140mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
“The effort is recounted with wit and style, a much easier read than climbing those mountains.”
“Obmascik’s saga revels in off-color jokes and humiliating pratfalls; the result feels like a raucous bowling night, with moderate oxygen deprivation, on the brink of an abyss.” —Publishers Weekly
“The effort is recounted with wit and style, a much easier read than climbing those mountains.”
—Sports Illustrated
About The Author
Mark Obmascik
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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