BOOKS
Written from experience. Built to be useful.
For more than three decades, my work has taken me into mountains, movement, coaching, and the lives of people trying to do things that matter to them.These books come from that experience.Some are practical companions for the journey ahead. Others explore what those journeys can teach us about the way we live.Different books. Different purposes.
The same commitment to paying attention to what experience can teach us.
THE KILIMANJARO COMPANION
After more than two decades and more than fifty climbs of Kilimanjaro, I’ve learned that preparing for this mountain is about far more than fitness.The Kilimanjaro Companion brings together the practical lessons, observations, and philosophy I’ve gathered from years of guiding people toward the summit — from preparation and acclimatization to pacing, mindset, judgment, and the experience of the mountain itself.It was written to help you arrive better prepared, climb with greater understanding, and take more from the journey than simply reaching the top.
Available at:
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Planning to climb Kilimanjaro?
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HOW NOT TO MISS YOUR LIFE
Over the years, people have often asked me what mountains, movement, coaching, and everyday life have in common.For a long time, I wasn't sure how to answer.Then I realized the answer had never been a method or a philosophy. It was something much quieter.Again and again, I watched lives change—not because people discovered something new, but because they finally recognized something that had been there all along. A conversation they had been avoiding. A strength they had overlooked. A moment they almost missed.I wrote this book because I wanted to explore that idea.Not by offering more answers, but by sharing the observations that have shaped my own life, in the hope that they might help you see yours a little more clearly.
"The poetic cadence and rhythm made the book a pleasure to read. Lots to think about."
~ Ingrid
AVAILABLE – November 17, 2026
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THE MOUNTAIN REMEMBERS
A Kilimanjaro Story
When nine-year-old Anna discovers an old photograph of her grandmother standing on the summit of Kilimanjaro, she also discovers a story she never knew—and a dream her father has carried since childhood but never pursued.
What begins with a photograph becomes a journey across generations, from a climb made more than fifty years ago to a father and daughter standing beneath the same mountain.
The Mountain Remembers is an illustrated story about adventure, family, courage, postponed dreams, and the stories we choose to carry forward.This book is a little different from the others I’ve written. I wanted to create something that might inspire the next generation to explore, to be curious, and to have adventures of their own. We don’t always know how the things we do today will affect the people who come after us. Sometimes an adventure becomes a photograph, a photograph becomes a story, and years later that story gives someone else the courage to begin one of their own.
AVAILABLEAmazon · Barnes & Noble · Indigo · Kobo · Apple Books
Planning to climb Kilimanjaro?
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MAYBE
An Investigation into What We've Gotten Right—and Wrong—About Fitness
Coming March 20, 2027
For more than twenty-five years, my work through Total Balance has begun with a simple idea: before asking the body to do more, we need to understand how it moves.The Total Balance Method will explore the perspective that grew from those years of coaching, observation, and practice — bringing movement, strength, conditioning, and restoration together as parts of the same whole.It is a book about building and preserving the physical capacity to keep participating in your life.Written with Christine De Bellefeuille.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF FITNESS
Coming June 29, 207
The Architecture of Fitness presents a practical framework for building and adapting your training throughout your life.
Drawing on decades of coaching experience, Paul explores how bodybuilding, powerlifting, weightlifting, track training and calisthenics can work together to develop strength, power, mobility and lasting physical capability.
Rather than following one training method indefinitely, the book offers an adaptable approach to training as your body, goals and circumstances change.
NUTRITION: GETTING TO YOUR BALANCE POINT
Second Edition — Revised and Updated, 2026A practical exploration of ketogenic nutrition, metabolism, and individual dietary needs. Drawing on decades of experience in health and human performance, Paul DeAngelis examines the benefits and limitations of low-carbohydrate eating, encouraging readers to make informed nutritional choices without dietary dogma.
"Amazing book! Absolutely loved this book, it’s a great quick read that helps you understand how the foods you eat impact your body."
- Big brain 123
AVAILABLEAmazon: The Total Balance Collection
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