A truely engaging story of climbing and surfing every continent in the world. The stories from those adventures are attention grabbing and the story of personal growth in the process is sweet as well. Franci Slakey methodicaly move through his planning of the adventures he is going to attemp and ends up being sucessful. Along the way he learns a lot about opening up to life and to others and ends up testifying before congress in order to help find justice for victims of a violent attack that he just barely missed being a victim of himself. Glad to have won this book from Goodreads.