David J Mauro 
The Altitude Journals 
A Seven-Year Journey from the Lowest Point in My Life to the Highest Point on Earth

When David Mauro was in his forties, his life hit rock bottom. With nothing to lose, he left everything he knew behind and set out on an epic international adventure. For the next seven years, Dave trudged across glaciers and frozen wastelands and through dense, dangerous forests. He communed with penguins and elephants, kept company with cannibals and gunrunners, and spoke with the dead. And though he’d never been a climber, he ended up joining history’s courageous few when he ascended into the clouds to stand at the summit of Mt. Everest.

Drawn from Dave’s personal diaries,  The Altitude Journals is the poignant, inspiring, and endlessly exciting true story of a remarkable midlife crisis. It is an unforgettable tale of one man who went to amazing extremes to repair a shattered life—and how he regained the powers to love and forgive, and to believe in himself once again.

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In addition to working as a Certified Financial Planner, David Mauro writes for Adventures Northwest magazine and blogs extensively on topics ranging from mountain climbing to why sardines are safe. In the course of his acting career David has appeared in several commercials for television, the internet, print and radio. He is an improv alumni of The Upfront Theatre, frequent consumer of emergency room services, and builder of dubious water craft. The father of two sons (Trevor, living in Seattle, and Chase, living in Beijing), David resides in Bellingham, Washington with Lin Lehn …to whom he is permanently engaged.