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Connard Hogan

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Growing up in Louisville during the 1950s and ’60s, Connard Hogan explored the caves of Kentucky. In adulthood, he fed his hunger for adventure by scaling mountains and becoming an avid peak bagger. 

A licensed therapist for twenty-five years, he worked in various settings with addicts and alcoholics and those suffering from major psychiatric disorders. Since retirement, Connard has pursued a number of passions, including service through Rotary, creating pottery, world travel, hiking, and writing.  

As a writer of nonfiction, he authored Once Upon a Kentucky Farm: Hope and Healing from Family Abuse, Alcoholism, and Family Dysfunction (2022) and Barbwire, Brothels, and Bombs in the Night: Surviving Vietnam (2023).  

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  • A Journey of Courage and the Climb Within by Connard Hogan

    A Journey of Courage and the Climb Within Mountaineering Adventures

    by Connard Hogan

    Experience the awe, ache, and angst of climbing with Connard Hogan as he embarks on a mountaineering journey of physical and emotional self-discovery.
    His adventures begin with the challenge of climbing California’s fourteen-thousand-foot peaks, which become the landscape where he wages battle against not only the physical challenges of climbing but also his deepest anxieties and primal fears, embodied in an alter ego he calls “Primate.”
    Narrated with honesty and wit, A Journey of Courage and the Climb Within brings the reader along on Hogan’s thrilling, peak-bagging journey as he strives to outpace his physical limitations, outwit the elements, and maybe, just maybe, find the inner affirmation he’s been looking for.

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