"...an inspiration for any of us who are tired of hearing inner voices that drain our dreams..."
-Kate Schultz, writer-editor, screenwriter
"...Chapter by chapter, Hogan and his alter ego, Primate--his inner voice of caution and fear--take the reader to the brink of choice: whether to move forward or retreat. To surrender to panic, or remain clear-headed. To live in fear, or grow from it..."
-Nancy Klann-Moren, author of The Clock of Life, Like the Flies on the Patio, and Love and Protest
"...Hogan beholds the awe and solitude of nature for spiritual awakening..."
-Perie Longo, LMFT, poet and author of Baggage Claim
Experience the awe, ache, and angst of climbing (peak-bagging) with Connard Hogan as he embarks on a mountaineering journey of physical and emotional self-discovery.
His adventures begin with the challenge of climbing California's fourteen-thousand-foot peaks, which become the landscape where he wages battle against not only the physical challenges of climbing but also his deepest anxieties and primal fears, embodied in an alter ego he calls "Primate."
Narrated with honesty and wit, "A Journey of Courage and the Climb Within" brings the reader along on Hogan's thrilling, peak-bagging journey as he strives to outpace his physical limitations, outwit the elements, and maybe, just maybe, find the inner affirmation he's been looking for.
