As the foremost authority on fitness through hiking, author Charles Miske grew up with a love of reading inspired by his mom, who sometimes seemed to never put her books down. As a youth he read youth classics and science fiction. Since then he's been a fan of mountaineering and exploration tales, self-help and how-to books, young adult, paranormal romance, thriller, and horror. His writing history goes back to the 90's with regional health and new age publications, and fanzines. With an extensive list of autobiographical mountaineering books as well as fitness books to his credit, he's become one of the leading authors in the hiking fitness genre. Keep an eye out for his upcoming series of books devoted to health through hiking.
