Halfway to Heaven - by Mark Obmascik (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After their first joint climb, Obmascik, addled by the thin air, decides to keep his head in the clouds and try to scale <i>all </i>fifty-four of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains, known as the Fourteeners--and to do it <i>in less than one year. </i>The result is <i>Halfway to Heaven, </i>a rollicking, witty, sometimes harrowing chronicle of an outrageous adventure that is no walk in the park. This hilarious midlife picaresque (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) has garnered wide critical acclaim, was named an Editor's Pick by <i>Parade, </i>won the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature, and made one reviewer laugh so hard he blew beer out of [his] nose (<i>Colorado Daily</i>). Like the author's critically acclaimed debut, <i>The Big Year, </i>it brings a keen eye and sharp humor to an obsessive subculture: climbers who share the author's crazed passion of scaling all fifty-four of the famed and feared Fourteeners.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Obmascik's saga revels in off-color jokes and humiliating pratfalls; the result feels like a raucous bowling night, with moderate oxygen deprivation, on the brink of an abyss. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>The effort is recounted with wit and style, a much easier read than climbing those mountains.<br> --<i>Sports Illustrated</i><br>
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