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With Mountain Madness Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guideaddict to humbled humanist after a nearfatal injury in Japans Chichibu Mountains From 2007 to 2010 Peters lived in Kosuge Village population nine hundred nestled in central Japans peaks where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town Using these three years as a frame this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan why he became obsessed with mountains and his fallout from mountain obsession including an essay on Craig Arnold the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano Ultimately the collection asks how can landscape create and end identities
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