Trading Steel for Stone
Tales of a Rustbelt Refugee Turned Rocky Mountain Rescuer
Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure & Literary Travel
| Author: | Tom Wood | ISBN: | 9781555664756 |
| Publisher: | Bower House | Publication: | May 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Johnson Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Tom Wood |
| ISBN: | 9781555664756 |
| Publisher: | Bower House |
| Publication: | May 30, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Johnson Books |
| Language: | English |
When the author began his career as a volunteer mountain rescuer with the Alpine Rescue Team in Colorado seventeen years ago, he was a clueless Youngstowner fresh off the interstate from Ohio who didn't know Gore-Tex from Tex-Mex. He had a lifetime of ridiculously dangerous pursuits and backcountry sins to atone for, so he became a Rocky Mountain rescuer with the intention of repaying the massive karmic debt he had accumulated. This is the story of how a career in volunteer service to others transformed a self-absorbed Rustbelt redneck adrenaline junkie into one of the nation's leading voices in technical rope rescue.
When the author began his career as a volunteer mountain rescuer with the Alpine Rescue Team in Colorado seventeen years ago, he was a clueless Youngstowner fresh off the interstate from Ohio who didn't know Gore-Tex from Tex-Mex. He had a lifetime of ridiculously dangerous pursuits and backcountry sins to atone for, so he became a Rocky Mountain rescuer with the intention of repaying the massive karmic debt he had accumulated. This is the story of how a career in volunteer service to others transformed a self-absorbed Rustbelt redneck adrenaline junkie into one of the nation's leading voices in technical rope rescue.
