| ISBN |
9781760633622 (paperback) |
| Name |
Allsop, Mike, 1969- author. |
| Title |
High adventure : the adventure doesn't end when you become a dad / Mike Allsop. |
| Published |
Auckland, N.Z. : Allen & Unwin, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
287 pages, 16 unnumberd pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
What happens when an accomplished adventurer becomes a father? Does he continue his solo adventures? Is there a way of having it all, family time plus adventures? Mike Allsop is a dynamo, an airline pilot and mountaineer who ran seven peaks in seven days on seven continents. He's also a motivational speaker, author of bestseller High Altitude (2013), a husband and the father of three children. He needed to find a way of incorporating his adventures into family life, rather than going off solo. So he takes each of his three children on major one-on-one expeditions. That's led to some incredible challenges: Trekking over 100 km in the Himalaya with each: seven-year-old, Dylan being the last ; Twelve-year-old Maya making the world's highest stand-up paddle board on a freezing lake at 5,300 metres ; Ethan, at 15 years old, struggling through altitude sickness to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro ; Fundraising to buy a new house for a Sherpa widow after the devastating earthquake of 2015. The challenges and excitement continue, with the family continually dreaming up new adventures. |
| Subjects |
Allsop, Mike, -- 1969- |
| Allsop, Mike, -- 1969- Family |
| Pilots -- New Zealand -- Biography |
| Runners (Sports) -- New Zealand -- Biography |
| Mountaineers -- New Zealand -- Biography |
| Air pilots -- New Zealand -- Biography |
| Adventure and adventurers -- New Zealand -- Biography |
| New Zealand -- Biography |
| Genre |
Autobiographies |
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