num_pages: 228
description: In part two of his gripping autobiography world-class climber Gerry Roach continues his action-packed tales of mountaineering around the world. His stories are laced with a hard-edged reality that is tempered by his spiritual growth. Ride the Breath follows his continuing quests picking up where his first book Transcendent Summits ends.This candid memoir takes you to some of Earth's most captivating peaks and the Tetons the North Cascades the Canadian Rockies and Yukon Mexico Ecuador Peru the Antarctic Rainier Iceland Norway the Alps Africa's fabled Kilimanjaro the Australian outback Tasmania New Zealand and Hawaii. In each of these stories Gerry better defines the edges between risk and reward lust and loss dreamtime and terrortime and perhaps most importantly transcendence and transgression. Gerry has a unique ability to take his readers into the mountains with him and hold them on multiple belays. In the end the life lessons learned transcend his climbs allowing Gerry to include his readers on his climb for peace which becomes an every-growing Odyssean exploration.
language: English
title: Ride the Breath: Classic Climbs Around the World
publisher: iUniverse