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'The Way Aroundis the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world.' Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration Growing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. 'Do the reps', he internalised. 'Commit to the work. Grind for your dreams.' Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepeningdiscontent. While travelling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object a kind of 'ritualised remembering' birthed by place. Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumambulation, he sets out here on three such extended walks. First, he completes the sacred thirty-two-mile revolution around Tibet's Mount Kailash, in search of a cultural counter to Western linearity. Then, following his mother's diagnosis with breast cancer, he returns home to California and takes part in an annual circuit of Mount Tamalpais, tracing a route made famous by Beat poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Allen Ginsberg. And then finally, he meets up with a quirky hydrogeologist in Butte, Montana, and joins his walk around the Berkeley Pit Complex, the largest Superfund site in thecountry. At once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes, The Way Around models what it means to experience a true revolution of heart and home for the flourishing ofall.

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“This is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for: a ravenously curious, fiercely big-hearted exploration of a topic as vast as the cosmos and as small as a city block. It reshaped how I see the world.”—Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration “You can’t read this book from left to right—instead you’ll swirl through, dervish-like. Trust Nicholas Triolo—his gorgeous, clear-eyed words and hard-earned footfalls—with every hair on your head. He’s done the good hard work here, stacking cairns along the trail’s curvature, seeking direction from monks and poets. He’s more than just following their lead, though. He slogs through mud, suffers blisters—but the whole route courses through atrium and ventricle. I’d follow this writer anywhere, for he’s gone to the place where we began, where we can begin again. The Way Around is the rarest and truest kind of adventure tale: the kind that can reclaim us from our lost, all-too-linear selves.”—Amy Irvine, author of Desert Cabal “I read in constant search of books like The Way Around, a debut of striking originality and singular contact with landscape. In a richly conceived act of gracious yet feral resistance, author/guide/contemplative Nick Triolo takes what the great Nan Shepherd called the ‘unpath’ around the mountain and returns to the everyday world with a story of renewed collective calling and urgently needed hope.”—Chris Dombrowski, author of The River You Touch

“You can’t read this book from left to right—instead you’ll swirl through, dervish-like. Trust Nicholas Triolo—his gorgeous, clear-eyed words and hard-earned footfalls—with every hair on your head. He’s done the good hard work here, stacking cairns along the trail’s curvature, seeking direction from monks and poets. He’s more than just following their lead, though. He slogs through mud, suffers blisters—but the whole route courses through atrium and ventricle. I’d follow this writer anywhere, for he’s gone to the place where we began, where we can begin again. The Way Around is the rarest and truest kind of adventure tale: the kind that can reclaim us from our lost, all-too-linear selves.”—Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal

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Nicholas Triolo is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, activist, and long-distance trail runner. His writing and images have been featured inOrion, Outside, Terrain.org, and Trail Runner. He has directed two documentary films, The Crossing and Shaped by Fire, and collaborated with Salomon on a film about touring and training Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. Triolo's films have been Official Selections for several international film festivals and featured on influential platforms such as Patagonia's Dirtbag Diaries, Upworthy, and Outside magazine. Triolo is based in Missoula, Montana, and you can read more about him at nicholastriolo.net.

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