By: Gerry Pye
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Gerry Pye is a former RAF wing commander and chartered aeronautical engineer. After retiring from the RAF, he spent many years as an Open University associate lecturer specializing in engineering and global development management. He began writing on military history and aviation in 2000, and he became a full-time freelance writer in 2022 after a successful expedition to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. He lives in Cambridgeshire with his fiancée, Karen, and has a son, Joseph, who followed in his father’s footsteps to pursue a career in aeronautical engineering.
This book is a moving and inspirational account of the authors participation in an expedition to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and how it helped him to overcome the grief of losing his wife to cancer and reconnect with the world. It is written as a journal that was kept on the expedition, with the second half of each chapter being the authors post-expedition thoughts, his reflections in hindsight on what he had written at the time. This was an emotional read – I cried several times! You would enjoy it if you just wanted a simple account of the trials of climbing a mountain, but more so if you are going through grief yourself and want reassurance that things will get better. In the book, the author talks about having become disconnected from friends and family, how it affected his mental health and how he found that participation in shared activities helped him reconnect with the world and ultimately find happiness again. Highly recommended!
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