{"product_id":"untitled-sep8_10-02","title":"Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can’t resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After their first joint climb, Obmascik, addled by the thin air, decides to keep his head in the clouds and try to scale \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eall \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efifty-four of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains, known as the Fourteeners—and to do it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ein less than one year. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe result is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHalfway to Heaven, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea rollicking, witty, sometimes harrowing chronicle of an outrageous adventure that is no walk in the park. This \"hilarious midlife picaresque\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) has garnered wide critical acclaim, was named an \"Editor’s Pick\" by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eParade, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewon the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature, and made one reviewer laugh so hard he \"blew beer out of [his] nose\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eColorado Daily\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Like the author’s critically acclaimed debut, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Big Year, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit brings a keen eye and sharp humor to an obsessive subculture: climbers who share the author’s crazed passion of scaling all fifty-four of the famed and feared Fourteeners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46757728157996,"sku":"","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/products\/untitled-sep8_10-02","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}