Trading Steel for Stone

By Tom Wood

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555664679
• ISBN13: 9781555664671
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Johnson Books
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"