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Finding Your Summit: How to Build Resilience and Faith to Rise Above Life’s Challenges
Mark Pattison is a former NFL wide receiver, Emmy Award–winning storyteller, and author whose work explores resilience, leadership, and the process of rebuilding identity through life’s most demanding transitions. His career spans professional sports, business, media, and high-altitude mountaineering, offering a rare perspective on performance and purpose.
Mark began his journey as a collegiate football standout before spending five seasons in the NFL. He later transitioned into business and media, serving as a senior executive at Sports Illustrated. Mark completed the Seven Summits, including Mount Everest, an experience that profoundly shaped his perspective on discipline, faith, and resilience.
Through his writing and speaking, Mark examines what happens after success, failure, or loss, when familiar identities fall away and individuals are forced to redefine who they are. His work focuses on resilience and leadership as practices forged through adversity.
Mark began his journey as a collegiate football standout before spending five seasons in the NFL. He later transitioned into business and media, serving as a senior executive at Sports Illustrated. Mark completed the Seven Summits, including Mount Everest, an experience that profoundly shaped his perspective on discipline, faith, and resilience.
Through his writing and speaking, Mark examines what happens after success, failure, or loss, when familiar identities fall away and individuals are forced to redefine who they are. His work focuses on resilience and leadership as practices forged through adversity.
226 pages, Paperback
Published January 15, 2026
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February 4, 2026
I thought when I started this book it would be all about climbing mountains. But this book is about more than just conquering mountains. It's about conquering the challenges that life throws your way. This book is about not giving up. Mark shows us the path that he followed on his journey of heartbreak-in sports, marriage, business. This book is about refocusing your energy on hard-to-reach goals and not giving into what life throws at you. Mark is an example of not giving up or giving in to the hard things that happen in life, in everyone's life.
This book is an inspiration to all who read it!
This book is an inspiration to all who read it!
January 21, 2026
As a former NFL Player who climbed the Seven Summits and who had been running Sports Illustrated, I have also had many valleys. This book isn't all about the achievements but about how I climbed out of my place each time I got knocked off my horse.
Hope you all enjoy the ride starting with Mt EVEREST.
Hope you all enjoy the ride starting with Mt EVEREST.
May 11, 2026
An Inspiring and Humble Read
I read Mark’s book over the weekend and really enjoyed it. What stood out most was how humble and relatable the writing felt, despite the incredible level of success and experience behind it. That’s not an easy balance to achieve. Congratulations again to Mark on another fantastic accomplishment. He has reached his eighth summit with this book!
I read Mark’s book over the weekend and really enjoyed it. What stood out most was how humble and relatable the writing felt, despite the incredible level of success and experience behind it. That’s not an easy balance to achieve. Congratulations again to Mark on another fantastic accomplishment. He has reached his eighth summit with this book!
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