His first book, REPORTS FROM BEYOND - A Journey through Life to remote Places, was published in 2008 by the Ultima Thule Press. In this book, he describes falling through the ice in Lake Baikal in Siberia, being attacked by a pack of dogs in Vanuatu in the Pacific, being trapped on top of a derailed train in the Congolese jungle, climbing sacred Mount Emei in western China, and sailing down the Niger River to Timbuktu in Mali.