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As an adventure journalist I have the opportunity to meet some amazing people. And it was through the magic of social media that I became friends with climber, writer and public speaker Jim Davidson. We first got acquainted on Facebook. But last year we met in person at a café in the Canadian Rockies, a town called Banff. There he told his incredible story of friendship, adventure and survival that’s the subject of his new book, “The Ledge”. On a routine decent of Mt. Rainer Jim and his climbing partner Mike Price suddenly fell and were trapped in a deep crevasse.
Jim’s partner Mike died in the fall. And it was only after several hours of painstaking effort that Jim was able all alone to climb his way to safety. Despite the tragic circumstances of his story as detailed in his book the Ledge today Jim finds great comfort in the lessons he’s learned through the power of persistence, determination and the bonds of friendship. Ironically these are life-long skills that Jim picked as a young a man not as a climber, but doing dangerous work with his father as a high altitude painter of tall buildings towers and bridges.
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As an adventure journalist I have the opportunity to meet some amazing people. And it was through the magic of social media that I became friends with climber, writer and public speaker Jim Davidson. We first got acquainted on Facebook. But last year we met in person at a café in the Canadian Rockies, a town called Banff. There he told his incredible story of friendship, adventure and survival that’s the subject of his new book, “The Ledge”. On a routine decent of Mt. Rainer Jim and his climbing partner Mike Price suddenly fell and were trapped in a deep crevasse.
Jim’s partner Mike died in the fall. And it was only after several hours of painstaking effort that Jim was able all alone to climb his way to safety. Despite the tragic circumstances of his story as detailed in his book the Ledge today Jim finds great comfort in the lessons he’s learned through the power of persistence, determination and the bonds of friendship. Ironically these are life-long skills that Jim picked as a young a man not as a climber, but doing dangerous work with his father as a high altitude painter of tall buildings towers and bridges.
