More Than a Mountain: My Year Cycling in France

This is the story of an ordinary American teenager who spent an extraordinary year doing extraordinary things on a bicycle as an exchange student in France.

From the moment he first saw it in the distance, Philip Mallory determined to climb the legendary Mont Ventoux in the shadow of his hero, Lance Armstrong.

As he absorbed the language and culture of the Tour de France and honed his body by endlessly climbing the local ascents on his bicycle, his quest became more than a bike ride up more than a mountain.