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Climbing a Mountain: Short Stories Inspired by Trekking
Hardcover
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Sep 26 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some mountains aren't just made of rock and ice.
In this captivating collection of short stories, we meet ordinary people on extraordinary treks, facing the challenges of the Himalayas. Inspired by the author's own journeys of trekking, these tales go beyond the physical climb to explore the hidden battles we all face. While climbing any mountain is an adventure in itself, the real adventure lies within the characters themselves, as they confront their own personal mountains in the heart of nature.
Each character is on a quest to conquer a mountain far bigger than the one under their boots:
- A couple discovers their Love isn't Enough to scale the mountain of life.
- A young man seeking freedom and achievement finds Humble Pie instead.
- A middle-aged man searches for Peace and gets Noise.
- A young woman strives to build her confidence, one step at a time on A New Summit.
- A Tough Old Woman on a Trek pursues her quest for independence and detachment with love.
- A man in Climbing a Mountain, attempting to summit Everest, finds spiritual inspiration from his late mother.
Like Maurice Herzog's legendary words, There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men, these stories reveal the unseen peaks we climb every day. Climbing a Mountain is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit-a compelling reminder that everyone has a summit to reach.
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