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A Bolt from the Blue: The Epic True Story of Danger, Daring, and Heroism at 13,000 Feet by Jennifer Woodlief

Let me paint this picture for you:

You’re a veteran mountain climber and you decide to trek to the summit of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming at 13,000 feet at the end of July. The weather has been nice, with one of your buddies having reached the peak in shorts and a t-shirt a few weeks prior. It’s a beautiful climb with spectacular views.

You camp near the base of the mountain and wake up super early to begin your hike. As you near the summit, the wind shifts, the temperature plummets and within minutes, a fierce electrical storm rolls in.

You make the smart decision to bail on the summit and head back to base camp. Because of the conditions, you rope together with six climbers to begin your descent, a few hundred feet from the top.

As you climb down, a 300 million volt bolt of lightning smacks into the first climber and charges through all six people, instantly killing one person, nearly killing another and knocking four others straight off the mountain, leaving them dangling and struggling for their lives over a deep chasm.

Fortunately, a member of the climbing group at a lower altitude contacts the Jenny Lake Rangers, one of the most elite mountain climbing rescue teams in the world… And within hours, they’re battling the elements, daylight and nerves on a near-impossible rescue mission with a half-dozen lives on the line, including their own.

Pretty awesome premise for a book, right? It’s a bad ass read.

It’s like Cliffhanger, but true, and author Jennifer Woodlief, a former Sports Illustrated vet, nails it. Pick this one up. Perfect for the summer.

BICEPS

One section of A Bolt From The Blue describes how some of the Jenny Lake Rescue climbers stay in climbing shape during the winter when there’s too much snow to climb.

One of the climbers does this awesome pull-up workout with his buddy. They call it the Chinese Pyramid.

It’s a timed workout, where you do one pull-up, then two, then three…. all the way up to ten… then all the way back down. So the reps look like this:

The Jenny Lake Rescue Team Pull-Up Pyramid

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

The only rest is when the other person is doing their pull-ups.

I tried this in my garage gym, and just waited 30 seconds between each of my sets. It starts off super easy, but by the time you get to the 7, 6, 5… on the way back down with little rest, it’s hard. But it’s a nice little 30 minute workout.

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