Gently by Hand

Action - Adventure - A little romance. A mountain climber's climbing partner is killed in a fall. The partners wife, who is not a climber, convinces the climber to take her to the spot where her husband died. A good read. Mike spent several years in the Swiss Alps climbing and photographing the country with his Leica. He financed his sojourn there by selling his photos. I met Mike in Northern California soon after the book came out and I have a signed copy. He had another book in the research stage. Mike moved to Colorado and I moved soon after and we lost touch with each other. Here is a review by Megan on Amazon.com Despite the fact that the title and the cover would make one think that this book is a trashy supermarket love novel I must say I enjoyed the book quite a bit. Growing up around people who climb mountains all the time, but never actually climbing them myself Mr. Trauner gives an excellent description of what it would be like to climb in the Alps. It shows the natural beauty and the inevitable lonley feeling one might get while up on the mountain. It would seem that Mr. Trauner was writing this while looking at the Alps from a ski resort.