Seven Decades of Mountain Climbing: A Flatlander’s Journey to the Summit

Rod Harris climbed North America's peaks when the summit registers were still bare. He learned from European legends of mountaineering, saw death and danger, enjoyed Teton Tea Parties, camp life and the exhilaration of reaching summits in Colorado, Wyoming, Canada, Japan and Austria-and then he brought his friends and family along for the ride. In this epic account, Rod captures the passion and the thrill of his time spent in the mountains of this great planet.

Rod Harris was born in the flatlands of Illinois. In 1948, at the tender age of twenty, he discovered the mountains and never stopped rediscovering them. He has climbed with the Chicago Mountaineering Club, saw death and danger, enjoyed Teton Tea Parties, camp life and the exhilaration of reaching summits in Colorado, Wyoming, Canada, Japan and Austria. At the age of seventy, Mr. Harris trekked to Everest. At eighty-one, he still enjoys the cliffs of the Wisconsin Dells and Devil’s Lake with his children and grandchildren.