Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking books series, is offering a free Amazon Kindle upload on Monday June 9th, for his popular new outdoor narrative, Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. This is the story of his 2012 trek on the most popular footpath in Asia, the Annapurna Circuit, which reaches 17,768 feet at Thorung La Pass. It is the most popular footpath in Asia. Walker is previously the author of...

It is the first of the month and Amazon Prime members have their monthly choice of what book to upload for free on Amazon. A new potential selection isTall Tales–The Great Talisman of Height, by Bill Walker. He is previously the author of the Skywalker hiking books series on the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail, as well as Camino de Santiago and Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. “Height may be the most basic prejudice in...

      Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking book series, will be offering a free upload on Amazon Kindle devices, as well as other handheld devices, this weekend, May 31 and June 1st, of his popular PCT narrative, Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail. This is the story of his 2009 thru-hike of the 2,663 mile Pacific Crest Trail in which the 6’11” former commodities broker lost 43 pounds. He...

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2YMND3ZT5J323/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004HZXYX4 Thank you for this kind review. I’ve learned to be thick-skinned about book reviews, especially in the Amazon era. For while most of my book reviews have been positive, you occasionally get the horrible review. That’s fair enough. Heck, the reader has a million options on Amazon alone to choose from, so they can be forgiven for being demanding....

iof”Be finished by October 1st,” they told us at the annual Pacific Crest Trail Kickoff. “Anything after that is borrowed time.” That, folks, is good advice. I know. I was still racing north in early October, 2009, down 40 pounds and worried about either getting badly lost or caught in a bad snowstorm. Fortunately neither happened (both happened plenty of times before that last week), and I was able to arrive at Manning...