Trading Steel for Stone: Tales of a Rustbelt Refugee Turned Rocky Mountain Rescuer

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.

About the author

By Tom Wood

Product details

• Authors: Tom Wood
• Publisher: Bower House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781555664671
• ISBN: 978-1-55566-467-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Other sports disciplines; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, SPORTS & RECREATION / Mountaineering, Sports & Recreation