Review by Fares Shipaxu -- The Altitude Journals
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Review by Fares Shipaxu -- The Altitude Journals
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Altitude Journals" by David J Mauro.]
4 out of 4 stars
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Experiences are better understood and become easier to reason with when they are told by the owners themselves. In the book The Altitude Journals published in 2017 by Plaid Vermin Publishing Davide J. Mauro shares his life experiences how his estranged father, deceased sibling, divorce, and childhood hardships made him pivot to Mountain climbing from being a financial advisor. In the following writing, i review the book.
His first mountain to climb was Denali. He found a trainer to prepare him, but his life experiences kept daunting him. It seems to me that he took the Denali mountain climb journey just to forget about all that he went and was going through but it all kept coming back to his mind during the camps of the climbing.
He found Lin and got another chance to love again, and she helped him prepare for the Kilimanjaro mountain climb, which was his second climb. While he was in Kenya, he felt that he should have told Lin what he felt for her.
He realised that being with Lin and he did not tell her what he felt about her could cost him the better treatment he had received from her. Thus, upon returning from Kenya he revealed to Lin that he loved her.
His career as financial advisor was not doing well at the time (2008) and hence the thought of having read about Elbrus Mountain Russia could not go away.
The more he made it out of every climbing endeavour, the easier it became for him to think about the next climb and he had the childhood and prior events to thank for or perhaps to give him the drive of moving onto the next mountain.
His next climb was Aconcagua and getting to the top of the Aconcagua was believed to be a big milestone, as it is 22,700 feet tall. He made it to its summit.
What transpired prior had an enormous mark on him as the next to climb Vinson Massif in the Antarctica was inspired by a movie he once watched in his childhood days. The mountain was ranked number seven among the most lethal mountains to climb.
He reached the summit of the mountain (Vinson Massif) and it was the most treacherous experience he ever had as he got countless injuries from it but this did not stop him.
His next move was Carstensz Pyramid in Papua New Guinea and even though he did think he was done with mountain climbing, he had to do this. However, one has to be wary of malaria, cannibalism, leeches which Papua New Guinea was prone to.
A woman’s support is considered a blessing towards anything a man does and Lin recognised how her man was so good at climbing and began to feel comfortable at suggesting next climbs. She suggested Mount Everest. He also used the opportunity to raise money for the kids that were not fortunate enough for brighter opportunities.
In conclusion, I admire the fact that the writer realised none of his problems were solved out of climbing mountains. It might not have helped him solve the problems he had, but he went to the summits of all the mountains but nothing happened him. Normally, a person’s life is in danger when they are in a depressing moment but it did not happen. I began to think that taking climbs such as the Kilimanjaro made him realise a few things like the feeling “he should have told Lin that he loved her”. The writer used imagery of the mountains and their surroundings and this is good to people who have never to a mountain and he wrote it professionally well for climbing aspirants, hence I rate the book 4 out of 4.
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4 out of 4 stars
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Experiences are better understood and become easier to reason with when they are told by the owners themselves. In the book The Altitude Journals published in 2017 by Plaid Vermin Publishing Davide J. Mauro shares his life experiences how his estranged father, deceased sibling, divorce, and childhood hardships made him pivot to Mountain climbing from being a financial advisor. In the following writing, i review the book.
His first mountain to climb was Denali. He found a trainer to prepare him, but his life experiences kept daunting him. It seems to me that he took the Denali mountain climb journey just to forget about all that he went and was going through but it all kept coming back to his mind during the camps of the climbing.
He found Lin and got another chance to love again, and she helped him prepare for the Kilimanjaro mountain climb, which was his second climb. While he was in Kenya, he felt that he should have told Lin what he felt for her.
He realised that being with Lin and he did not tell her what he felt about her could cost him the better treatment he had received from her. Thus, upon returning from Kenya he revealed to Lin that he loved her.
His career as financial advisor was not doing well at the time (2008) and hence the thought of having read about Elbrus Mountain Russia could not go away.
The more he made it out of every climbing endeavour, the easier it became for him to think about the next climb and he had the childhood and prior events to thank for or perhaps to give him the drive of moving onto the next mountain.
His next climb was Aconcagua and getting to the top of the Aconcagua was believed to be a big milestone, as it is 22,700 feet tall. He made it to its summit.
What transpired prior had an enormous mark on him as the next to climb Vinson Massif in the Antarctica was inspired by a movie he once watched in his childhood days. The mountain was ranked number seven among the most lethal mountains to climb.
He reached the summit of the mountain (Vinson Massif) and it was the most treacherous experience he ever had as he got countless injuries from it but this did not stop him.
His next move was Carstensz Pyramid in Papua New Guinea and even though he did think he was done with mountain climbing, he had to do this. However, one has to be wary of malaria, cannibalism, leeches which Papua New Guinea was prone to.
A woman’s support is considered a blessing towards anything a man does and Lin recognised how her man was so good at climbing and began to feel comfortable at suggesting next climbs. She suggested Mount Everest. He also used the opportunity to raise money for the kids that were not fortunate enough for brighter opportunities.
In conclusion, I admire the fact that the writer realised none of his problems were solved out of climbing mountains. It might not have helped him solve the problems he had, but he went to the summits of all the mountains but nothing happened him. Normally, a person’s life is in danger when they are in a depressing moment but it did not happen. I began to think that taking climbs such as the Kilimanjaro made him realise a few things like the feeling “he should have told Lin that he loved her”. The writer used imagery of the mountains and their surroundings and this is good to people who have never to a mountain and he wrote it professionally well for climbing aspirants, hence I rate the book 4 out of 4.
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The Altitude Journals
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