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Two for the Summit: My Daughter, the Mountains, and ME Book

At the approach of his 50th birthday, sports and outdoors writer Geoffrey Norman decided to pursue a dream that had quietly obsessed him for years: to summit the 13,770-foot Grand Teton in Wyoming. Little did he suspect, when he announced his plans to his family, that his 15-year-old daughter, Brooke, would ask to make the climb too. Two for the Summit: My Daughter, the Mountains, and Me documents what happened when Norman realized that "the notion of the solitary climb to celebrate my fiftieth birthday was narcissistic, self-indulgent crap" and decided to attack the mountain with his daughter. It is the story of the two novices' toughest two climbs: Grand Teton, and (a few years later) 23,000-foot Aconcagua in the Andes, one of the seven tallest mountains in the world. Like most books in this genre, Two for the Summit is about adventure and taking risks, although in this case, Norman forgoes the usual adrenaline-and-disaster-driven narrative for a deeply personal and moving account of how climbing helped to teach him what it means to be a good father. There are moments (on Grand Teton for Brooke, on Aconcagua for Norman) when each reaches the limits of endurance, yet what moves this book along is the small epiphanies that accompany the hard work of building trust: "It occurred to me that if nothing else came from this climb and we never got close to the summit, this evening would be something I'd always be grateful for." --Svenja SoldovieriRead More

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  • Product Description

    For his fiftieth birthday journalist Geoffrey Norman set a goal: to climb the 14,000 feet of the treacherous Grand Teton summit. As a man who always craved adventure, Norman was both delighted and terrified when his teenage daughter, Brooke, offered to join him. Rock climbing--perhaps more than any other sport--is wholly dependent upon teamwork and trust, a truth that becomes painstakingly clear as they climb on a sheer rock face several hundred feet above the ground. A few years later, father and daughter set their sights higher: to climb Aconcagua, a mountain in the Andes that rises nearly 23,000 feet, one of the highest peaks in the world. A dangerous ascent for even the experienced climber, the father and daughter team were determined to meet the challenge.

    As Norman takes the reader along for these adventures, we witness not only the beauty and danger of the mountains, and the exhilaration of risk-taking, but the uniqueness of the bond between father and daughter--a relationship forged of trust, respect, and the occasional rocky moment.

  • 052594494X
  • 9780525944942
  • Geoffrey Norman
  • 19 November 2001
  • E P Dutton & Co Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 242
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