A Field Guide to Losing Your Friends: Essays on Loss - Softcover

Dunning, Tyler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692872299 ISBN 13: 9780692872291

Publisher: Riverfeet Press, 2017

Synopsis

Dunning has written for REI, Reserve America, The Gap, and MGM Studios; and is the admin of the 40k plus member Facebook group “Exploring the US National Parks.”

Tyler and his best friend Nate were working in Uganda for the non-profit group Invisible Children. Tyler returned home to the states, but Nate remained in Uganda. Shortly after, Nate was killed in a terrorist attack while attending a fútbol game. This sent Tyler into a bout of depression. To combat his depression, he began to travel, touring nearly all 59 U.S. National Parks, and climbing Longs Peak, the highest point in northern Colorado, convinced that by overcoming the mountain, he would overcome loss.

This book became a documentary film that won Best Short at the Lyons International Film Festival, and was an Official Selection at Mountain Film Fest where he was asked to speak on a panel with Cheryl Strayed about the healing powers of nature (Tyler stole the show). He was also invited for an all expenses paid trip to London to give a TedX talk.

About this title

About the Author

Tyler Dunning grew up in southwestern Montana, having developed a feral curiosity and reflective personality at a young age. This mindset has led him around the world, to nearly all of the U.S. national parks, and to the darker recesses of his own creativity. He’s dabbled in such occupations as professional wrestling, archaeology, social justice advocacy, and academia. At his core he is a writer.
Dunning has written for REI, Reserve America, The Gap, and MGM Studios; and is the admin of the 40k-member Facebook group “Exploring the US National Parks.”

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"I was there to sweat my sufferings; to seep all haunting memory from my mind. There because I wanted to believe solace was a wild thing best fostered in a forest; that many tormented souls, all coming before me, had found refuge just the same. There, having chosen Longs, because I wanted to believe if I could get over that mountain maybe—just maybe—I could get over my loss."

Edition details

• Publisher: Riverfeet Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692872299
• ISBN 13: 9780692872291
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184