KISS OR KILL – Confessions of a Serial Climber

Features brand new epilogues to all of the stories They call him Dr. Doom.
Raving and kicking against mediocrity, his anger and pain simmer close to the
surface. He speaks and writes the language of the punk music that defined him.
He is extreme alpinist Mark Twight, and he doesn’t back down from the truth.

He’s a one-man literary punk band. If you have any doubt, here comes his
knockout punch: the only collection of writing Twight swears he’ll ever
publish. These author’s cut are the real deal, not the homogenized fluff
offered up by magazine editors who are often unwilling to offend. Twight’s
words make it clear that climbing is only distantly about the summit. Several
of these pieces are new to U.S. readers.

Twight edited all of the selections and appended each with a current author’s
note; confessing his inspiration, events that followed, and lessons learned
(or not learned, some might say). It adds up to a frightfully lucid look into
Twight’s personal life as both man and hardcore alpine climber. The dissection
scares me sometimes… Includes dramatic black and white mountaineering
photos.

No of Pages: 208
Page Size: 146 x 222 mm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: illustrations