num_pages: 30
description: Seven years after a brush with death on Mount Rainier the narrator agrees to join a friend on one of the peaks most dangerous routes. Having vowed never to become That Guy who dies in the mountains he returns to the narrow ledge between safety and oblivion. Questions swirl in his head as the climb draws near. Does danger breed character or is mountaineering sheer indulgence? What duty has a man to stay safe for his familys sake? Will he return home brimming with experience or make his wife a widow his daughter an orphan? What makes danger so persistently attractive?Barron Brown is a writer doctor climber and former endurance athlete. He lives with his family in Seattle Washington. A Narrow Ledge is his first published work.Cover design by Kristen Radtke.
language: English
title: A Narrow Ledge
publisher: None