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Back to the Summit: How One Man Defied Death & Paralysis to Again Lead a Full Life of Service to Others

“You’ll never walk again.” This was the news Omer Rains heard from doctors when he awoke from a prolonged coma and found the right side of his body completely paralyzed, the result of a stroke and brain aneurysm that nearly killed him at age 61. But the former California State Senator—a politician on the global stage, a power-broking lawyer of A + celebrities, a conqueror of some of the highest summits in the world—wouldn’t listen. Rains should have been leveled by his life-threatening health crisis, as most anyone would have been. But he was a stubborn fighter, one who many times in his life had defied the improbable, if not the impossible. “ Back to the Summit” is Rains’ story of his harrowing, yearlong journey toward recovery as he pushes the limits of human potential: Against all odds, Rains teaches himself again to walk, and then to play tennis, aggressively bike, ski, and engage in other such activities again. But as the reader quickly discovers by way of flashbacks and flash-forwards, nothing about Rains’ life has been normal. Even before the aneurysm and stroke, his remarkable life story in and of itself is as captivating as any story can be.

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