Photographer Finds Healing in Wilderness: OPB Television Interview

Photographer Peter Marbach finds great solace hiking into wilderness. Image courtesy of Vince Patton/OPB

In 2001, Peter Marbach hiked off Mount Hood and felt his heart do something odd. “There was no pain,” he says. “It just felt like it rolled over on its side.”

This billy goat of a man who’d climbed mountains all over the world still felt fine.

Yet, he paid attention to that bobble in his chest. His doctor in Hood River did tests and within days he found himself having an angiogram in Portland. 30 minutes later doctors came in and suggested he have open-heart surgery.

Then.
Right away.
No delay.