Chasing Summits: In Pursuit of High Places and an Unconventional Life

Garry Harrington hardly recognizes himself in photos any more. Staringdown his fortieth birthday, he no longer looks like the collegiate athlete whoonce loved hiking and running. His dream job as a sports writer no longer holdsthe same thrill. As his marriage crumbles, he comes to the uncomfortablerealization that something has to change before he loses himself entirely… On the trails of New Hampshire's MountMonadnock, he begins to feel it. Every heart-pounding slog up gets easier;every break on the summit feels freer, until he racks up 1,000 ascents. . As hetackles harder trails in more distant locales, he sheds the life he thought hewanted in pursuit of something more. His journey takes him from the familiar peaksof his native New England to the foreign and famous―from the Rockies, to thehigh peaks of Mexico to TajumulcoVolcano, the highest point in Central America, continuing ever-onwards andupwards to the summit he'd dreamt of climbing since childhood―the Matterhorn. Harringtonis in rarified company, completing not only the High Points in the continentalU.S. but also one of a handful to have summited all 66 of the accepted 14,000-footersin the Lower 48 Harrington's journey of self-discoveryparallels the peaks and valleys of life and loss as he seeks perspective andpurpose on the high points of the Americas and Europe. His path defies all conventionand expectations―including his own―rarely leaving unanswered the echoingquestion: “What if?”

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