THANKS TO THE MANY MEMBERS OF THE CLAN WHO READ INITIAL drafts of this book, including Mary, Gillian, Penny, Ann, Michael, Jan, Peter, and Sue Burns; Pat Webb; Rob, Kian, and Gill Murdoch; Heather and Rod Gough; and Bob and Sylvia Robertson.
Many folks from the outdoor community helped us find the authors we wanted and their stories, including Luke and Mel Laeser; Amory and Judy Lovins; Steve and Sandi Porcella; Mike and Claire Schillaci; Ted, Amber, and Jesse Davenport; John and Laurel Catto; Benny Bach; Jordan Campbell; Rick Leonidas; Charlie French; Julian Fisher; Trip Hyde; Chad Riley; Doug Leen; Todd Gordon; Jacob Schmitz; Misha Logvinov; Andrea Peacock; Ellen Brennan; Joe and Nancy McKeown; Chris Lomax; Ethan Putter-man; Allen Hill; Karen Gilbert; Leslie Henderson; Stephen Venables; Paul Ross; Chris Bonington; and. . . . Thank you. Thanks also to the staff of Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, and especially to Ruth McKee, the interlibrary loan librarian.
The staff at Globe Pequot was also very helpful—and, more importantly, patient—when it came to the never-ending dance of W-9s, W-8s, and permission releases. Thank you, David Legere (seriously, Dave, this was a massive headache), Meredith Dias, Elissa Curcio, Steve Culpepper, and (former GPer) Jess Haberman. Thanks also to Sarah Warner of Warner Literary Group for keeping us on task.
Finally, thank you Zoe and Mollie Burns, for keeping the adventure flame burning. We’ve already climbed, skied, sailed, backpacked, surfed, snowboarded, horsepacked, rafted, paddle-boarded, canoed, and spelunked in your respective thirteen and eleven years—let’s do it lots more.