Learning to Fly: An Uncommon Memoir of Human Flight, Unexpected Love, and One Amazing Dog

When professional rock climber Steph Davis started skydiving, she discovered new love, hope, and joy in letting go.

Its not so surprising that on the day of my fifth wedding anniversary I would be crouched in the open door of an airplane, thirteen thousand feet above the Colorado plains, about to jump out. That coincidence of timing really wasnt.

Steph Davis is a superstar in the climbing community and has ascended some of the worlds most awe-inspiring peaks. But when her husband makes a controversial climb in a national park, the media falloutand the toll it takes on her marriagesuddenly leaves her without a partner, a career, a source of income...or a purpose.

In the company of only her beloved dog, Fletch, Davis sets off on a search for a new identity and discovers skydiving. Though falling out of an airplane is completely antithetical to the climbers control shed practiced for so long, she turns each daring jump into an opportunity to fly, first as a skydiver, then as a base jumper, and finds herself indelibly changed. As she opens herself to falling, she also finds the strength to open herself to love again, even in the wake of heartbreak. And before too long, she fortuitously meets someone who shares her passions.

Learning to Fly is Daviss fascinating account of her transformation. From her early tentative skydives, to zipping into her first wingsuit, to surviving devastating accidents against the background of breathtaking cliffs, to soaring beyond her past limits, she discovers new hope and joy in letting go. Learning to Fly isnt just an adventure but a womans story of risk-taking and self-discovery, with love at its heart.