The next Amazing Author stop in Cortez will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The library will present Brendan Leonard, author of \u201cSixty Meters to Anywhere,\u201d in a \u201cmotivational stand-up comedy show,\u201d according to a press release. His presentation will be free and open to everyone.<\/p>\n
Denver-based Leonard is well known for the funny and inspirational adventure essays he\u2019s published since 2011 on Semi-Rad.com. Now he is recognized for his new book, one of Amazon\u2019s 2016 Best Books of the Year So Far. Brendan\u2019s work has appeared in Outside, Men\u2019s Journal, CNN.com, Alpinist, Backpacker, High Country News and dozens of other publications. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal and the Dirtbag Diaries, and a former contributing editor at Climbing Magazine. He has co-produced and co-directed numerous award-winning short films that have toured internationally with Mountainfilm and the Banff Mountain Film Festival.<\/p>\n
While on the road promoting his book, Brendan talks about his journey through addiction and recovery, and then rock climbing. But this is not just a climbing memoir. Since a drinking problem landed him in rehab at age 23, he\u2019s gone on to get a master\u2019s degree, lived out of a van for three years, spent weeks below the rim of the Grand Canyon, climbed the Grand Teton in a day, bicycled across America and across Norway\u2019s Lofoten Islands, trekked Italy\u2019s Alta Via routes and the original Haute Route, traversed Wyoming\u2019s Wind River Range and Colorado\u2019s Sangre de Cristo Range by foot, climbed big walls in Zion National Park, skied off the summits of peaks in Colorado, Washington and Switzerland, and has never been without a full-time job since he finished graduate school in 2004.<\/p>\n
Leonard has two more books coming out this year. \u201cThe Great Outdoors: A User\u2019s Guide\u201d (April 4, Artisan Books) is a general guide to everything in the outdoors, from camping to canoeing to ice climbing. \u201cBest Served Wild: Real Food For Real Adventures\u201d (August 15, Falcon), is a cookbook with co-author Anna Brones and has recipes for day hiking, backpacking and car camping. Leonard is also working on some film projects. One is about a friend who builds bicycles in Denver\u2019s Five Points neighborhood, and another is about a group of men trying to break the speed record for paddling through the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n
Next he is headed into the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park later this month for a backpacking trip while hoping to travel to Nepal in November. In between those adventures he has a couple of ultra-marathons, and then he will take his mother on a rim-to-rim backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon in October.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all about getting your life together, figuring out who you are,\u201d Leonard said. \u201cI want this to be universal; to reach people more than climbers \u2026 when I got out of substance-abuse treatment, I needed to find something else, and I hope everyone in that situation finds something else, whether it\u2019s climbing or needlepoint or writing.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information on the Cortez event, call 970-565-8117 or visit the Cortez Public Library at 202 N. Park St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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