It began with a simple question:"One day I found myself asking my father, across the chasm between us,'Hey Dad, you want to climb the highest mountain in Colorado?'"And for Nathan Foster and his father, Richard, that simple question changed everything. With no hiking experience to draw on, they embarked on a journey of physical challenge, discovering just how far they could push themselves. For Nathan a parallel journey took him inside himself.Having grown up in the shadow of a famous father, Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline, Nathan had a lot of questions about who his father really was. Would hiking open the door for him to get to know this distant figure?As the one-time experiment evolved into a decade of challenging hikes up Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, the Fourteeners, Nathan navigated his twentiesfinishing college, choosing a career, a possible cross-country move, the early years of marriage and a major personal crisis. Along the way he would discover exactly what his father could offer him.This book also includes an afterword by Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline and coauthor of Longing for God.

Nathan Foster is associate professor of social work and theology at Spring Arbor University, where he holds the Andrews Chair in Spiritual Formation. He is director of teaching ministries for Renovaré as well as a licensed clinical social worker, certified addictions counselor, public speaker and bassist for the band Christy The Professors. He is the author of The Making of an Ordinary Saint: My Journey from Frustration to Joy with the Spiritual Disciplines and Wisdom Chaser: Finding My Father at 14,000 Feet. He currently resides in Michigan with his wife Christy and their two children.

1 It Never Hurts to Ask
2 The Beating on Mount Ebert
3 The Quandary of Dreaming
4 Finding My Pace on Mount Quandary
5 Time: Love's Allegory
6 Freedom to Fail
7 A Much-Loved Nothing
8 Humility Is For Losers
9 On False Summits
10 Freedom to Question
11 How Do You Celebrate Discipline?
12 Living in the Moment on Long?s Peak
13 Sometimes the Dragons Win
14 Accepting Things I Cannot Change
15 Rising and Falling to Assumptions
16 What's in a Name (The Tale of Skippy and Pete)
17 Choices on the Continental Divide
18 Electric Air on Holy Cross
19 Beauty Beyond Imagination
20 Walking Each Other Home
Afterword: Lessons from the Final Fourteener
Acknowledgments