About Michael Cooper

A wilderness adventurer, mountaineer and expert navigator, Michael has backpacked, climbed, hiked, skied and rafted 8,000 miles of wild country—and nearly got killed over a half-dozen times in the process. Michael's upcoming memoir chronicles his many close calls in the wild, exploring miles from the nearest trail. Beginning with his struggle for survival in a remote Mexican jungle, the book takes the reader on over thirty major mountaineering ascents in the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Range and down hundreds of miles of treacherous whitewater. Yet some of Michael's wildest—and riskiest—adventures were his thirteen expeditions on foot through five deserts, including to where no human in recorded history had gone before.