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“With its beautiful prose, Everest and the Rest of Us is a meditation on meaning, action, and discovering who we are through challenges and overcoming—no matter how large or small the scale.” —James Hibbard, author of The Art of Cycling: Philosophy, Meaning and a Life on Two Wheels
An epic bike ride across the United States turns nearly to tragedy. A rowing journey along the East coast through storms and tidal surges tests physical and mental limits and forces a reckoning with life’s priorities. A five-hundred-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain triggers personal and spiritual renewal.
What happens when a part-time adventurer takes the progressive ideas that defined his career as a teacher — real world problem solving, expeditionary learning, following your passion — and turns them on himself?
Everest and the Rest of Us: Four Journeys in Search of Adventure delivers an exciting, three-part tale of cross-country cycling, coastal rowing, and trekking on the Camino de Santiago, by turns suspenseful and comic, painful and triumphant. The fourth journey? Examining why we pursue adventure — pushing our limits, the thrill of taking risks and facing danger, renewal that comes from stepping outside our daily routines, personal empowerment from a challenge met — and exploring the gendered and racialized history of adventure.
Most of us will never climb Mt. Everest, surf a fifty-foot monster wave off Hawaii, or row single-handedly across the Atlantic Ocean. But everyone loves a good adventure. Everest and the Rest of Us celebrates the adventurous spirit in us all!