Learning to Fly Learning to Fly

Learning to Fly

An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog

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Publisher Description

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR

World-class free climber Steph Davis delivers a “thrilling and infectiously interesting” (San Francisco Book Review) memoir about rediscovering herself through love, loss, and the joy of letting go. The paperback includes a new epilogue in which Davis shares how her husband Mario’s tragic accident has affected her relationship to climbing and flying.

Steph Davis is a superstar in the climbing community and has ascended some of the world’s most challenging and awe-inspiring peaks. But after her first husband makes a controversial climb in a national park, the media fallout escalates rapidly and in one fell swoop leaves her without a partner, a career, a source of income...or a purpose.

In the company of only her beloved dog, Fletch, Davis sets off on a search for a new identity and discovers skydiving. Falling out of an airplane is completely antithetical to the climber’s control she’d practiced for so long, but she perseveres, turning each daring jump into an opportunity to fly, first as a skydiver, then as a base jumper. As she opens herself to falling, she also finds the strength to open herself to love again, even in the wake of heartbreak. And before too long, she meets someone who shares her passion for living life to the limit.

With gorgeous black-and-white photos throughout, Learning to Fly is Davis’s fascinating account of her transformation. From her early tentative skydives, to zipping into her first wingsuit, to surviving devastating accidents against the background of breathtaking cliffs, to soaring beyond her past limits, she discovers new hope and joy in letting go.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
April 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Atria Books
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
35.1
MB

Customer Reviews

CobiClimb ,

Well written, enjoyable

I’ve known of Steph Davis for years seeing her photos in magazines. I met her once at a crag, she was nice. This book is well written and I really got to know her. Great job , Steph! I loved your story. Now I want to go to your women’s climbing course. Two chapters I was crying. Thanks for the tell all.
This book also feels like a manual on how to BASE jump… I learned a lot!

JayyyyyyyT ,

Good perspective into climbing and jumping

As a climber who has lived in his car for 8 months last year and now find myself traveling and anticipating the day I can start jumping, I found this book very captivating. It could do with out some sappy chapters (dog/love related ones) but these were clearly important to steph so they still weren't bad. Great read, probably the quickest I've even finished reading a book since I really enjoyed it.

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