{"product_id":"halfway-to-heaven-my-white-knuckled-and-knuckleheaded-quest-for-the-rocky-mountain-high-9781416567004","title":"Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled--And Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High","description":"Fat, 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 \u003ci\u003eall \u003c\/i\u003efifty-four of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains, known as the Fourteeners--and to do it \u003ci\u003ein less than one year. \u003c\/i\u003eThe result is \u003ci\u003eHalfway to Heaven, \u003c\/i\u003ea rollicking, witty, sometimes harrowing chronicle of an outrageous adventure that is no walk in the park. This \"hilarious midlife picaresque\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) has garnered wide critical acclaim, was named an \"Editor's Pick\" by \u003ci\u003eParade, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature, and made one reviewer laugh so hard he \"blew beer out of [his] nose\" (\u003ci\u003eColorado Daily\u003c\/i\u003e). Like the author's critically acclaimed debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Year, \u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObmascik, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Mark Obmascik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Year\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a movie, and \u003ci\u003eHalfway to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for outdoor literature, the 2003 National Press Club Award for environmental journalism, and was the lead writer for the \u003ci\u003eDenver Post \u003c\/i\u003eteam that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Denver with his wife and their three sons.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334650040594,"sku":"9781416567004","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7cbc293c-dddd-4e36-9449-fda9acaac76f.jpg?v=1727892725","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/halfway-to-heaven-my-white-knuckled-and-knuckleheaded-quest-for-the-rocky-mountain-high-9781416567004","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}