Lisa Thompson’s memoir "Finding Elevation" is an exhilarating and harrowing chronicle of mountain climbing. Compelled at first by “blind ambition,” Thompson’s climbs ranged from Seattle’s Mount Rainier to treacherous K2, high... Read More

The universe’s safety is at risk in the gripping science fiction novel "First Strike", which features an exciting array of extraterrestrial entities. About sacrifices made for others, Angela Haas’s science fiction novel "First... Read More

Evincing a carpe diem attitude, "Under the Great Elm" is a globe-trotting memoir. Rich Flanders’s memoir "Under the Great Elm" is about a life of adventure and love—as well as a healthy dose of luck. Opening with his childhood and... Read More

A healing adventure becomes a chance for new romance in the healing novel "Somewhere Above It All". In Holli Fawcett Clayton’s evocative romance novel "Somewhere Above It All" a grieving woman seeks to scale a treacherous mountain,... Read More

Spurred by the infamous Riesenstein Hoax, Katie Ives, editor of Alpinist magazine and a passionate climber, investigates cartographers’ art through history, unveiling the mysterious imaginary peaks, blank spaces, and nonexistent land... Read More

In "Life Lived Wild", outdoorsman, writer, filmmaker, and conservationist Rick Ridgeway recounts his thrilling adventures in the world’s most remote regions. Ridgeway’s daring life is filled with newsworthy firsts. He was the first... Read More

At a time when the West was still wild, an aspiring businessman opened a daring new travelling attraction, with gas balloons capable of carrying humans into the sky. He broke records across the West and, eventually, the world. His feats... Read More