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This is a book of short climbing stories direct from Glenn Exum.  The book starts out by giving you an insight into Exum’s life and how a potato farmer from Idaho ended up in Jackson Wyoming.  The stories really highlight Exum’s fun loving personality and take you on many of his comical adventures.  It also talks about how the famous Exum guides service started in Wyoming with Paul Petzoldt and Exum’s famous first climb up the Grand Teton making the Exum leap in football cleats.

I was so hooked on this book that I read it cover to cover in an afternoon.  Not only are many of the stories hilarious you really get to an insight in how climbing has changed over the years and just how much Glenn Exum has done for the mountain guiding profession in America.  Along with this there are interesting pictures from throughout Exum’s life along with some of his own hand drawn cartoons. But be warned if you didn’t want to go out and climb with good friends especially the Grand you certainly will after reading this.

Cheers!