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Lou Kasischke

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Memoir, Sports, Mountaineering Literature

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Louis Kasischke has lived his entire life in Michigan, but his enduring love of the mountains and alpine endurance sports have taken him to many remote parts of the world, on all seven continents.

Lou's education includes a Bachelor of Arts ·degree in business and a Juris Doctor degree in law from Michigan State University. Risk management was the major focus of his business degree from MSU. Already as a student, Lou was fascinated by risk, risk evaluation, and the concepts of taking and managing risk. For a career centered in finance analysis and law, he also became a certified public accountant and earned an advanced Master of Laws degree.

Lou's work career experiences were multi-dimensional. In law, this included 35 years with Dykema Gosse ...more

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Best New Voice in Non-Fiction Award

In April 2015, The Independent Book Publishers Association presented After the Wind the Benjamin Franklin Gold Winner Award for Best New Voice in Non-Fiction.

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Published on May 20, 2015 14:36 • Tags: award, non-fiction

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After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy—One Survivor's Story

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“By noon, five out of eight of the Hall climbers made the decision, independent of Rob, that it was not wise or safe to continue. They said no to Rob. How much louder did those voices need to be to tell Rob that his judgment was wrong? Victims? Who were they? Were there any?”
― Lou Kasischke, After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy - One Survivor's Story

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“Rob Hall made his living as a leader of professional climbing expeditions. As such, each of us in the expedition knew that Rob’s business interests”
― Lou Kasischke, After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy - One Survivor's Story

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“It’s the mind not the body that must win the struggle. The body will follow (however reluctantly) if the inner voice says, “I can do this.” I know that the minute my inner voice says, “I can’t do this,” the climb is over.”
― Lou Kasischke, After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy - One Survivor's Story

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