Learning the Ropes: An Alaskan Memoir

Cinch up your harness. In this sweeping, riveting, sometimes raucous, always brutally honest Alaskan epic, Mike Gordon-between the strenuous ups-and-downs of climbing the highest peak on each continent-fights the ghosts of his childhood, survives the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of the bar business in the Last Frontier and struggles, often at long odds, to keep the woman he loves. If you've ever had moments of self-doubt, found yourself addicted to drugs, wondered how to overcome low self-es...