The Totem Pole and a whole new adventure

This insightful, firsthand chronicle of the accident and its aftermath
portrays the physical and emotional ordeal of Pritchard’s recovery. He weaves
together accounts of earlier climbs, his changed relationships. Paul Pritchard
gained a reputation as a climber of routes of extreme technical difficulty. In
1998, a horrendous accident left him paralyzed. This text recalls his climbing
memories and tells of his fight for recovery. Winner of the 1999 Banff
Mountain Book Festival.