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Looking at the moon shadow below Landscape Arch, it occurred to me that, while I would never be able to walk on top of the great span, I could at least walk across the desert in its shadow. Rising, I moved benith the arch, turned south, and walked along in the shadow toward the basin’s wall. It was rough going in spots, but I did not leave the shadow. When I reached the wall, I looked up at a steep sweep of impossible looking sandstone, then, looking back, I saw the arch’s shadow extending completely across the basin in a graceful arc of its own. If the basin itself was sacred, then I somehow knew that my motion here would add to the arch spirit–and thus honor it. Touching the basin’s south wall, I turned and hiked north in the shadow, this time going all the way to the basin’s north wall. En route, the true length of Landscape Arch surprised me, and I realized that merely looking at it had not been enough to understand its power. When I touched the far wall, I felt the arch spirit enter me. With my shadow journey complete, I struck out across the dark desert toward camp.
– Gerry Roach - from Transcendent Summits - Landscape Arch - 1957
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This is Gerry’s first narrative. Autobiographical in nature, it examines his roots as a mountaineer during his youth and first decade of serious mountaineering. More than reflective, it looks for the inner motivation as felt by a young, headstrong lad. The concept of a Transcendent Summit matured over time as the lad grew into a boy, and later, as boy became man.
Often taking a humorous turn, this tome plies the routes and peaks of Gerry’s youth: the Third Flatiron, T2 in Eldorado Canyon, Longs Peak, the Grand Teton, the Mexican Volcanoes, the highest peaks in Hawaii and Norway, Rainier, and Denali. It is rare that a climber looks back across so many years with such a keen perspective, but Gerry has done just that.
