The Mountain Path

<p><em>'All I wanted to do was go to sleep. And I was certain that if I did drift off it would be for the last time.'</em></p><p>In 1998 Paul Pritchard was struck on the head by a falling rock as he climbed a sea stack in Tasmania called the Totem Pole. Close to death waiting for hours for rescue Pritchard kept himself going with a promise that given the chance he would 'at least attempt to live'.</p><p>Left hemiplegic by his injury Pritchard has spent the last two decades attempting to live taking on adventures that seemed impossible for someone so badly injured while plumbing the depths of a mind almost snuffed out by his passion for climbing.</p><p>Not content to simply survive Pritchard finds ways to return to his old life cycling across Tibet and expanding his mind on gruelling meditation courses revisiting the past and understanding his compulsion for risk. Finally he returns to climb the Totem Pole the place where his life was almost extinguished.</p><p><em>The Mountain Path</em> is an adventure book like no other an exploration of a healing brain a journey into philosophy and psychology a test of will and a triumph of hope.</p>