The Last Walk

By John Porter

There are a number of things which almost all human beings that have walked on this planet have had in common. Ever since he first hauled himself upright and stopped dragging his hairy knuckles along the forest floor, man has pretty much both suffered and enjoyed the same emotions year after year, century after century. Down through the ages - for millennia in fact - men, woman, and children have, from time to time, felt the unsettling mental torment of unknown fears, the energy-sapping effects of pure terror, the exhilarating emotions of loving another, and of being loved, the reassuring affection of faithful animals and the uplifting and lightening joys of laughter and fun. For one old Irish fisherman, the laughter and fun ends abruptly when he finds that the difference between heaven and hell is just one wag of a tail. One in a series of ten short stories by the same author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Porter
• Release date: Jan 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465750358

John Porter

John Porter was born in Massachusetts and he started climbing at the age of twelve, serving his apprenticeship in the White Mountains, Rockies, Cascades and Yosemite. He moved to the UK in the early 1970s to do postgraduate work at Leeds University where he joined a team of climbers dedicated to clean ethics, alpine-style and the fostering of international partnerships. Ascents of the North Face of Koh-i-Bandaka (1977) and the south face of Changabang (1978) with Alex MacIntyre and Polish friends were achieved in the middle of the cold war. Other climbs include lightweight attempts of the west ridge of Everest in winter, the north-west ridge of K2, the east face of Sepu Kangri, first ascents of Chong Kundam I and V in the Eastern Karakoram, and many other notable climbs around the world over a period of fifty-five years. In 1980 he founded the Kendal Mountain Festival with Brian Hall and Jim Curran, and in 2011 he and Brian founded the online adventure film website SteepEdge. John lives in the Cumbrian Lake District working as a consultant in the energy sector. He is a vice president of the Alpine Club and has previously been a vice president of the British Mountaineering Council and secretary to the Mountain Heritage Trust.

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