Ed Abell lives in rural Wisconsin. He has climbed and trekked to: Mt. Fuji, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Everest Base Camp, Rim to rim across the Grand Canyon and Mt. Sneffels. After a thirty-year design career, he gave up the brush and pen for a word processor. He has been writing since the mid-nineties.