Crossing Higher Ground

These are the stories that mountains tell. Discover the powerful messages from the poetry of the mountaintops. This is the second book in the series.

Are you ready to experience your view from the mountaintops? Would you like to encounter the freshness of the air, the vastness of the horizon, and the infinite silence that attends the high points? Rick Van de Poll is an accomplished ecologist, science writer, and poet who has felt the world fall away from beneath his feet for a moment. His first book is Crossing Paths: A Poetic Journey in 45 Days

He has witnessed as well as experienced the trials and tribulations of getting to the top of the mountains. Fifty years of wandering has yielded many a lesson from the ascent of high peaks and brought with it a perspective on humankind that would otherwise be missing from his life.

Crossing Higher Ground: Poetry from the Mountaintops is a sensitive and beautiful illustrated nature poetry book journaling the author's experiences.

How mountains become our teacher

How they force us to look beyond ourselves

How they remind us to not take life for granted

How they hold the secrets in their bones

And why they give up those secrets slowly, carefully, and intentionally