Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship

Author Bio: Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan is the founder of the Newburyport, Massachusetts newspaper, The Undertoad, and served as its publisher and editor for over a decade. In 2007, he sold the newspaper and moved to the White Mountains of New Hampshire with his dog, Atticus M. Finch. Over the last five years, Tom and Atticus have climbed more than 450 4,000 foot peaks. After raising thousands of dollars for Angell Animal Medical Center in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the pair was inducted into the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Hall of Fame as corecipients of the "Human Hero of the Year Award." Tom currently writes the popular "The Adventures of Tom & Atticus" column in the NorthCountry News and Mountainside Guide and the blog, The Adventures of Tom and Atticus.