Review by aliciamillis -- The Altitude Journals
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Review by aliciamillis -- The Altitude Journals
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Altitude Journals" by David J Mauro.]
The Altitude Journalsby David J Mauro takes you on a journey through the heart space, headspace and the various landscapes of the world's greatest mountain summits as experienced by the author. He has expertly weaved his uphill battles, with the real mountains he climbs. This intermingling of his life story and the beauty he paints of each mountain terrain leaves the reader exhilarated for each new paragraph. Anticipation will leave you biting your nails as he reaches his achievements and will leave you clenching tissues as you sob with the losses he experiences. You will feel the celebratory elation with him as he summits the peaks and as he gratefully returns home. David’s skills in writing and storytelling are a joy to experience, you feel as if you are adventuring with him, rooting for his successes and are invested in the lives around him.
The Altitude Jouranls would be suitable for anyone trying to overcome pain, challenges or major life changes. Inside these pages, you will find an ordinary man, faced with the hardships of life. While each of us takes our own path through the dark times of life, David chooses to climb mountains. The lessons he learns, and the way he ends up self-reflecting and re-evaluating his life is something we all have in common, most of us don’t summit mountains for these life lessons, but after reading this book we may just find ourselves staring up the side of one such mountain.
I give this book a 4 out of 4 stars. I immensely enjoyed reading David’s journey climbing up each of the mountains and loved how he connected all his life happenings to these excursions. He is a talented writer and I found very few errors in the book. He manages to take the reader into a world most humans will never experience and make it feel familiar and understandable. He may even lead a number of us couch potatoes out onto a mountain face! His inspirational tale and heroic adventures will leave readers feeling motivated to look into their own lives and challenge the status quo of their existence, and possibly find a way to live more fully in the nows of life.
While I enjoyed so much of the story told by David, I did find myself yearning for more details of climbing, specifically the decent of these great peaks. Having never climbed a mountain, I am unsure of the process of getting off the mountain, I was hoping he would delve more into this athletic feat! I think many of us would also appreciate more detail about the supportive lead, Lin. I would have loved to learn more about her and her perspective as the support of this adventurous man. Those aside, this book was an exciting read from start to end. Thank you, David, for taking us along on this incredible journey with you.
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The Altitude Journals
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The Altitude Journalsby David J Mauro takes you on a journey through the heart space, headspace and the various landscapes of the world's greatest mountain summits as experienced by the author. He has expertly weaved his uphill battles, with the real mountains he climbs. This intermingling of his life story and the beauty he paints of each mountain terrain leaves the reader exhilarated for each new paragraph. Anticipation will leave you biting your nails as he reaches his achievements and will leave you clenching tissues as you sob with the losses he experiences. You will feel the celebratory elation with him as he summits the peaks and as he gratefully returns home. David’s skills in writing and storytelling are a joy to experience, you feel as if you are adventuring with him, rooting for his successes and are invested in the lives around him.
The Altitude Jouranls would be suitable for anyone trying to overcome pain, challenges or major life changes. Inside these pages, you will find an ordinary man, faced with the hardships of life. While each of us takes our own path through the dark times of life, David chooses to climb mountains. The lessons he learns, and the way he ends up self-reflecting and re-evaluating his life is something we all have in common, most of us don’t summit mountains for these life lessons, but after reading this book we may just find ourselves staring up the side of one such mountain.
I give this book a 4 out of 4 stars. I immensely enjoyed reading David’s journey climbing up each of the mountains and loved how he connected all his life happenings to these excursions. He is a talented writer and I found very few errors in the book. He manages to take the reader into a world most humans will never experience and make it feel familiar and understandable. He may even lead a number of us couch potatoes out onto a mountain face! His inspirational tale and heroic adventures will leave readers feeling motivated to look into their own lives and challenge the status quo of their existence, and possibly find a way to live more fully in the nows of life.
While I enjoyed so much of the story told by David, I did find myself yearning for more details of climbing, specifically the decent of these great peaks. Having never climbed a mountain, I am unsure of the process of getting off the mountain, I was hoping he would delve more into this athletic feat! I think many of us would also appreciate more detail about the supportive lead, Lin. I would have loved to learn more about her and her perspective as the support of this adventurous man. Those aside, this book was an exciting read from start to end. Thank you, David, for taking us along on this incredible journey with you.
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The Altitude Journals
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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