After completing his trip, Hsieh spent two years writing Circling the Mountains, which chronicles his adventures and process of healing by means of this journey. The book has become an instant classic in Taiwanese travel writing, a work in the mold of A Steppe Story and Up from Poverty on Rock Mountain.
旅程結束後，他花了 2 年時間完成《轉山》一書，書寫冒險犯難、自我療癒的過程，也成為繼《迭里溫・孤山》和《石頭山上的脫貧夢》之後，台灣本土旅行文學的又一力作。