It began with a simple question:’One day I found myself asking my father, across the chasm between us, 'Hey Dad, you want to climb the highest mountain in Colorado?'’And for Nathan Foster and his father, Richard, that simple question changed everything. With no hiking experience to draw on, they embarked on a journey of physical challenge, discovering just how far they could push themselves. For Nathan a parallel journey took him inside himself.Having grown up in the shadow of a famous father, Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline, Nathan had a lot of questions about who his father really was. Would hiking open the door for him to get to know this distant figure?As the one-time experiment evolved into a decade of challenging hikes up Colorado's 14, 000-foot peaks, the Fourteeners, Nathan navigated his twenties—finishing college, choosing a career, a possible cross-country move, the early years of marriage and a major personal crisis. Along the way he would discover exactly what his father could offer him.This book also includes an afterword by Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline and coauthor of Longing for God.
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1 It Never Hurts to Ask
2 The Beating on Mount Ebert
3 The Quandary of Dreaming
4 Finding My Pace on Mount Quandary
5 Time: Love’s Allegory
6 Freedom to Fail
7 A Much-Loved Nothing
8 Humility Is For Losers
9 On False Summits
10 Freedom to Question
11 How Do You Celebrate Discipline?
12 Living in the Moment on Long?s Peak
13 Sometimes the Dragons Win
14 Accepting Things I Cannot Change
15 Rising and Falling to Assumptions
16 What’s in a Name (The Tale of Skippy and Pete)
17 Choices on the Continental Divide
18 Electric Air on Holy Cross
19 Beauty Beyond Imagination
20 Walking Each Other Home
Afterword: Lessons from the Final Fourteener
Acknowledgments
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Nathan Foster is assistant professor of social work at Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Michigan. He previously served as director of Door of Hope Counseling and Consulting (Arvada, Colorado). His website is www.nathanfosterprojects.com.