Jeff Tiegs

I was a young man who was hungry for adventure and hungry for challenge and wanted to be part of the best, you know, fighting forces that I could find.

This

This wasn't pure.

You know what I mean?

Like I look back on it and God's guidance, there was a purity in there that I didn't understand, you know?

And so what I would say is as we, around 2005 to 2007, we lost a lot of guys.

Those were some tough years for special operations in Iraq.

Lost some friends, lost some guys.

My boys are old enough now to recognize that I'm going into harm's way.

I could just feel the strain of it everywhere.

And I very distinctly remember looking for people who had discussed this either in story, in documentary, in film, but really probably in books.

And I sought these books out, these people that had gone through this and how they navigated it.

And I couldn't really find anybody that did it well.

So I did come across this book.

And the author, her name is Maria Coffey.

And I, I, I'm sorry.

It's, I think it's, it's in the shadow of the mountain or where the mountain casts its shadow.

It's one, it's one of those two, two titles.

I can't remember specifically, but she was the fiance of an high altitude alpinist and her fiance died in the high mountains, which you have a much more likelihood of dying as a high altitude alpinist than even you do as a,

as a commando in the military, you know, like it, it, it is a very, very dangerous job.