Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship by Tom Ryan Genres: Animals, Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon In Following Atticus, Tom Ryan describes life with his mountain-climbing dog. After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foot peaks twice in one winter while raising money for charity. Following Atticus is an unforgettable true saga…