Climbing the seven volcanoes : a search for strength
Cairns, Sophie2023
Books, Manuscripts
Everything changed for Sophie Cairns when she was thirty and a party-loving journalist in China. Her father died so suddenly that she arrived at his bedside two hours too late. In her grief, she defied her chronic asthma and climbed the world's seven highest volcanoes to raise funds for charity in his memory. This is a story of redemption through mountain climbing, from Papua New Guinea to Russia by way of Antarctica. As an amateur climber the author does not gloss over her limitations and (sometimes hilarious) mistakes. She encounters the snobbery of the professional climbing world.
Main title:
Climbing the seven volcanoes : a search for strength / Sophie Cairns.
Author:
Cairns, Sophie, author
Imprint:
Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2023.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes index.Originally published: 2020.
ISBN:
9781398117266 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.522092
LC class:
GV199.92
Language:
English
BRN:
3489945