Fiction; "The Climb Up to Hell" by Jack Olsen. I'm a sucker for mountain disaster stories. This is one of the best...or worst depending on how you look at it.  •  Non-fiction; "The Bottom Billion" by Paul Collier. Collier is a brilliant economist. More importantly he has the ability to explain …

Last night I stumbled upon the Appalachian Mountain Club’s “Mountain Leadership School”. For those of you who are not familiar with the AMC they describe what they do as this:  •  ““The AMC promotes the protection, enjoyment, and wise use of the mountains, rivers, and trails of the Appalachian …

Matt Gunn, whom you'll remember from my Outward Bound story, has started Cairn Publishing. He's published one guidebook so far. It looks good. It's titled "scrambles in southwest british columbia".  •  What is scrambling you might ask?  •  “"Scrambling is the middle ground between hiking and …

I recently had my copy of Douglas Coupland’s microserfs returned to me after a long stint on someone else’s bookshelf. Placed specially by my toilet I have been rereading the book a few pages per day. Today it dawned on me... This book, published in 1995, is actually written, formatted, read, and …

A few months back I had the pleasure of reading Good to Great by Jim Collins. While the title and the cover design may seem cheap and cheesy the contents of the book were anything but. While it looks, feels, smells, and reads like a book it is actually a research paper five years in the making …