City Of Concord: Concord Reads 2025 Selection Announced

Press release from the City of Concord:

The Concord Public Library and Concord Public Library Foundation are thrilled to announce that Where You’ll Find Me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova by Ty Gagne is the 2025 selection for Concord Reads. Concord Reads is an annual citywide literary event encouraging community members to read and discuss the same book. This year’s title was selected to celebrate a New Hampshire author and to provide both education and an opportunity for reflection on a topic relevant to Granite Staters.

Where You’ll Find Me is the true story of mountaineer Kate Matrosova’s fatal climb during her attempt to complete a winter traverse of the Northern Presidential Range of the White Mountains in 2015. For centuries, New Hampshire’s White Mountains have lured adventurers from near and far to reach their summits. The book explores the motivations behind risk-taking in this infamously unpredictable environment, the science of survival, and the strategies and techniques of Search and Rescue personnel.

Sponsored by Concord Public Library Foundation and produced in partnership with Concord Public Library, Concord Reads is free of charge and open to all. Copies of Where You’ll Find Me, and other titles by Ty Gagne, are now available to borrow from Concord Public Library. Programs will take place throughout the month of April. Tickets to all Concord Reads events are free, and registration is required at www.tinyurl.com/CPLF-Gagne.

About the author:

Ty Gagne is the Chief Executive Officer of Primex, a NH risk management company. He holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of New Hampshire and a Bachelor of Science from Granite State College. He is a member of the Leadership NH Class of 2013, and previously served on the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Mount Washington Observatory. Ty completed the program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and holds the Associate in Risk Pool Management (ARPM) and the Associate in Risk Management for Public Entities (ARM-P) designations. Gagne is also the author of the books The Last Traverse; Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites, and The Lions of Winter: Survival and Sacrifice on Mount Washington. His essays include “Emotional Rescue,” the true story of Pam Bales, who rescued a distressed hiker on Mount Washington, and “Weakness in Numbers: How a Hiking Partner Can Be Dangerous.”

Learn more about Concord Reads 2025 events and news and pick up your copy of the book at the library today!

This press release was produced by the City of Concord. The views expressed here are the author’s own.