Robert Alden Rubin is the author of The Weather Wizard's 5-Year Weather Diary, Poetry Out Loud, and Love Poetry Out Loud. He lives in Sykesville, Maryland.
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"A beautiful story."-Esquire "A book for the rest of us, who will never climb Annapurna but still need to do something to test our own physical and mental limits."-National Geographic Adventure "Delightful. . . . [Rubin] writes humorously and honestly."-Seattle Times "Engaging and enjoyable."-Library Journal "Rubin opens his heart to hikers, people in the nearby towns and the reader, inviting everyone along to share both hardship and discovery. ... [He] tells a human tale of the search for meaning and the understandable need to reduce a complicated life to a simple passage from white blaze to white blaze, from town to town."-News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina