Widely known as a recording engineer (on projects featuring Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt, former weekend anchor of ABC World News Barry Serafin, and Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Ashley Cleveland), pro-audio journalist (with more than 500 articles published in national and overseas magazines), and Contributing Editor for Mix magazine, Michael Cooper’s crazy private life now gets spilled in his critically acclaimed memoir Miscalculated Risks:

A wilderness adventurer, mountaineer and navigator, Cooper explored more than 8,000 miles of wilderness—including places nobody in recorded history had gone before—and nearly lost his life over a half-dozen times in the process. Midwest Book Review says Miscalculated Risks "will leave readers on the edges of their seats" and is "nothing short of remarkable." Kirkus Reviews says, "The wilderness comes alive on the page in this (literal) trailblazer's memoir. . . . Cooper portrays his adventures in immersive detail."

Michael Cooper lives with his wife in Central Oregon.
For photographs and video of Michael’s adventures, visit his website: https://michaelcooperadventurer.com.