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Outdoor instructor, backpacking guide, and author of The Chair and the Valley

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The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors
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Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author) (foreword)

4.62 avg rating — 586 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions

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Banning liked Kimberly Spencer's review of The Chair and the Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors: "Intense, inconceivable, and beautifully written. This story will stay with me."
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