Kirk Pocan

Kirk Pocan has been an environmental chemist, research scientist, legal assistant, wilderness advocate, tutor and volunteer

He currently teaches guitar to veterans with PTSD. His first book, Forbidden Summit, is an award winning adventure thriller, some of its pages borne out of his own mountaineering, climbing and wilderness misadventures. He has spent weeks at a time in the woods, sometimes wishing he’d never come out, other times wishing he’d never gone in.

Forbidden Summit

A team of Amanian mountaineers challenges the highest peak in the Toribol System, the virgin summit of Danvedi Garwal. A rival Trescan team of climbers is advancing towards the summit on opposite slopes. Both teams must endure everything the mountain throws at them, including period cyclones, ice worms, deadly parasites, carnivorous Muxphoy, pagan myths, the hopelessness of failure, and the greatest obstacle of all – themselves.