Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog
Language: English
Published by Atria Books, 2013
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- Title
- Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog
- Author
- Davis, Steph
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Publication year
- 2013
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1451652054
- ISBN 13
- 9781451652055
- Edition
- Second printing.
- Item weight
- 19 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x9
“It’s not so surprising that on the day of my fifth wedding anniversary I would be crouched in the open door of an airplane, thirteen thousand feet above the Colorado plains, about to jump out. That coincidence of timing really wasn’t.”
Steph Davis is a superstar in the climbing community and has ascended some of the world’s most awe-inspiring peaks. But when her husband makes a controversial climb in a national park, the media fallout—and the toll it takes on her marriage—suddenly leaves her without a partner, a career, a source of income...or a purpose.
In the company of only her beloved dog, Fletch, Davis sets off on a search for a new identity and discovers skydiving. Though falling out of an airplane is completely antithetical to the climber’s control she’d practiced for so long, she turns each daring jump into an opportunity to fly, first as a skydiver, then as a base jumper, and finds herself indelibly changed. As she opens herself to falling, she also finds the strength to open herself to love again, even in the wake of heartbreak. And before too long, she fortuitously meets someone who shares her passions.
Learning to Fly is Davis’s fascinating account of her transformation. From her early tentative skydives, to zipping into her first wingsuit, to surviving devastating accidents against the background of breathtaking cliffs, to soaring beyond her past limits, she discovers new hope and joy in letting go. Learning to Fly isn’t just an adventure but a woman’s story of risk-taking and self-discovery, with love at its heart.
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"What puts this book out front in the adventure category is that Davis doesn t bog it down with clunky 'climbing as journey' metaphors but they re in there, anyway. She just sort of lets her story shake it all loose, slowly revealing bits of herself sometimes she figures stuff out, sometimes she makes mistakes, but her hope is that only she gets hurt in the process."--Kyle Wagner "The Denver Post "Pages" blog ""
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