Sixty Meters to Anywhere by Brendan Leonard

Sixty Meters to Anywhere by Brendan Leonard

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When Brendan Leonard finished substance abuse treatment at age 23, he was lost. He knew what not to do--not drink alcohol and not get arrested again. But no one had told him what it was that he could do. He quickly realized that he had to reinvent himself, to find something other than alcohol and its social constructions to build his life around.

A few years later, Brendan was sober and had completed a graduate degree in journalism, but he still felt he was treading water, searching for direction. Then his brother gave him a climbing rope. And along that sixty-meter lifeline, Brendan gradually found redemption in the crags of the American West. He became a climber, someone who learned to push past fear, to tough it out during long, grueling days in the mountains; someone who supported his partners, keeping them safe in dangerous situations and volatile environments; someone with confidence, purpose, and space to breathe.

Sixty Meters to Anywhere is the painfully honest story of a life changed by climbing, and the sometimes nervous, sometimes nerve-wracking, and often awkward first years of recovery. In the mountains, Leonard ultimately finds a second chance.

Brendan Leonard has bicycled across America, spent a month rafting through the Grand Canyon, bicycled across Norway's Lofoten Islands, trekked Italy's Alta Via routes, hiked the original Haute Route, traversed Wyoming's Wind River Range and Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Range by foot, climbed big walls in Zion National Park, skied off the summits of peaks in Colorado, Washington, and Switzerland, and has never been without a full-time job since he finished graduate school in 2004. His website, Semi-Rad.com, reaches half a million unique readers each year with stories about the everyman's and everywoman's adventure. He makes a living as a full-time freelance creative, writing articles and books, producing and directing short films, and developing advertising content. His editorial work has appeared in Alpinist, CNN, Outside, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Backpacker, Adventure Cyclist and dozens of other publications. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal and The Dirtbag Diaries podcast, and is a former contributing editor at Climbing Magazine.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781680510409
ISBN 10	1680510401
Title	Sixty Meters to Anywhere
Author	Brendan Leonard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mountaineers Books
Year published	2016-03-22
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.