Foreword by

Robin "Black Death" Heid

Before there was Tony Hawk skateboarding in empty swimming pools there was Robbie Slater screaming down the Cheyenne Frontier Days arena ramps and launching himself on his old green Schwinn.

Before there was Fear Factor contestants climbing scaffolding with safety lines and eating worms there was Robbie Slater topping out on the hardest routes in Yosemite having subsisted for five days on Sara Lee coffee cakes and Mint Milanos, three days on water alone and the last two days on nothing.

Before there was the X Games and its generation of pop culture daredevils there was Robbie Slater diving off antennae, bridges, skyscrapers, mountain cliffs and canyon walls with a parachute, mostly at night.

Before climbers wore Lycra there was Robbie Slater wielding the Lovetron on previously inconceivable, death-defying aid moves on El Capitan.

Long before "crazy" became cool and popular on TV there was Robbie Slater. As Robbie's identical twin brother, Rich Slater has a unique perspective from which to tell his brother's tale. It's a story of amazing courage, unwavering loyalty, heart-breaking loss and inspired redemption, set in the wildest and most beautiful realms of the Mountain Gods.