
Without Restraint
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Nothing helped from a team of doctors to heavy medication. Then in 2010, Ryan was voluntarily committed to a mental hospital for further evaluation. His parents Rob and Mary Beth were counseled to place him in a group home. They refused.
Two years earlier, after an impulsive decision Rob had to take Ryan skiing, he discovered a different child than the version experts were so sure about. By his second day of skiing, Ryan was executing advanced runs, and with each conquest in the winters that followed, Rob began to question the path laid for his son by the professionals paid to judge him. He later convinced Mary Beth to fight the medical and educational complexes over Ryan's care and school placement, and together they fostered the freedom Ryan needed to pursue his dream of becoming a professional ski mountaineer.
Written in two voices, Without Restraint is a joint father-son memoir told with both pain and levity, struggle and strength, adventure and heart. It is the story of a misunderstood boy, a father's growth, and a shared love of the outdoors that formed their unbreakable bond.
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Ryan C. DeLena studied Outdoor Education at Northern Vermont University. He is widely known in the outdoor community through his social media presence as "Extreme Ryan." He was pictured on the cover of Backcountry Ski Maps (2020) and has conquered many of the world's signature ski runs including Super-C Couloir in Chile, Little Couloir in Montana, and Tuckerman Ravine in New Hampshire. Ryan has climbed and skied additional peaks in Oregon, Washington, Utah, California, Nevada, Wyoming, and Antarctica. He is an enthusiastic rock climber, ice climber, and avid hiker, summiting the Grand Teton twice and has recently completed the "Hundred Highest" hiking peaks in New England. Ryan has earned advanced certifications from the American Mountain Guides Association and the Professional Ski Instructors of America.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Never Complain and Never Give Up
- Chapter Two. The Gift
- Chapter Three. Not Otherwise Specified
- Chapter Four. A Holding Environment
- Chapter Five. The Magic Carpet
- Chapter Six. Double Black Diamonds
- Chapter Seven. Rolling a Stone Uphill
- Chapter Eight. The End of the Beginning
- Chapter Nine. Paint Bucket
- Chapter Ten. Randall Patrick McMurphy
- Chapter Eleven. Cliffed Out
- Chapter Twelve. The Extreme Club
- Chapter Thirteen. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
- Chapter Fourteen. I Have Just the Guy
- Chapter Fifteen. Redefining Collaborative
- Chapter Sixteen. Follow the Leader
- Chapter Seventeen. Doctor Discordance
- Chapter Eighteen. F-Bombs
- Chapter Nineteen. Into the Backcountry
- Chapter Twenty. Circling the Bases
- Chapter Twenty-One. Spike It Like Gronk
- Chapter Twenty-Two. Dale Carnegie Had No Friends in High School
- Chapter Twenty-Three. Little and Big
- Chapter Twenty-Four. The JV Olympics
- Chapter Twenty-Five. The Super-C Couloir
- Chapter Twenty-Six. People Ski in Antarctica?
- Chapter Twenty-Seven. Fatal Accident
- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Deception Island
- Chapter Twenty-Nine. Don't Forget to Look Around
- Chapter Thirty. Not Your Matterhorn
- Chapter Thirty-One. Redemption
- Chapter Thirty-Two. Reality Graduation
- Epilogue
- About the Authors
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