Today's guest considers himself a firm believer in the healing power of nature.

He has written several books about the lessons and wisdom taken from trails.

His book Forward Upward and Onward was written after completing the 48 of the 40,000 foot peaks of New Hampshire.

Moving forward, followed shortly after and replicated the lessons learned on these trails, not

just in New Hampshire but across the United States.

Matt Landry, welcome to Papa Brocks.

Martin, a pleasure.

Thank you, thank you.

Matt, I really enjoy inspirational stories

and people that journal them.

Turning into morning just a walk in the woods and it sounds like that's what you've done here but

before we talk about the books I'd like you to first tell us a little bit about yourself.

Geez, you know, it's, it's, um, again, firm believer in nature and firm believer in

the healing power of nature, I've, um, I've always been around. I've been super lucky. I've got a mountain in my backyard basically

as it were that I that I hiked even as a kid. I've always enjoyed the outdoors. I've always enjoyed

I don't think I ever connected it basically to healing as time went on. Like a lot of other people I had some mental health issues when I was when I was very young,

a lot of depression.

I went through it again as I turned 40,

and we'll talk more about that with forward,

up and onward.

And I really learned that the power of the outdoors

and the power of the outdoors and the power of getting outside and walking and moving and just seeing that healing power of nature and being a part of it all was an enormous benefit to me for sure.

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