October 5, Monthly Meeting: Anthony Massey, Climber and Peace Activist - Open to the Public
- When:
- Mon, October 5, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
- Where:
- Trinity Lutheran Church, 3333 Duffield Avenue, Loveland. The meetings are in the Fellowship Hall. Go through the main entrance and make a right down the hall to the Fellowship Hall.
- Description:
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Anthony Massey lives in Broomfield, Colorado, and has both Irish and American citizenship. He has been involved in the peace process in Northern Ireland for 28 years. His first book, “The 18 - Year Quest” (2014), is a photo-centric narrative about his summiting all of Colorado’s fourteeners, which began in 1994 and took him 18 years to complete.
His second book, “Mountains for Peace” (2024), is a memoir of his work with Project Children, for which he became the Colorado coordinator in 1998, while continuing his mountaineering efforts. The book is available on Amazon, Lightning Source, and the Ingram Sparks platform. He will also bring copies to Loveland Mountain Club's October 5th meeting. Members can purchase the books with cash, check, Venmo, or Zelle.
Anthony visited Ireland in June of this year to join the Famine Memorial Walk in County Mayo and has hosted two Project Children interns this summer for work at Habitat for Humanity in Boulder, Colorado. He has also welcomed his friend, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Denis Mulachy, to Denver for the ceremony of a tree planting, and showing of the film “How to Defuse a Bomb” , along with the release of the book about Project Children, Mountains for Peace.
Anthony closes with this thought: “You don't conquer the mountains; they merely allow you to visit them once in a while. I didn't learn that truth until after I had used up several cat lives and two of the climbers I hiked with later died doing what they loved – hiking mountains.”
Link to documentary, How to Defuse a Bomb
Hope to see you there!