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Overview
"The literature of adventure is replete with tales of fatal outcomes, butthis honest and brave book about a mother and the life and death of her
mountain-climbing son expands and enriches our necessary knowledge of
the grief and loss that disaster exacts from surviving family members and
friends. To say that a book about the rawest grief and deepest sorrow is a
great pleasure to read-that it's a book of delights and uncanny discoveries
and not just of tears-is perhaps not as contradictory as it seems. For in
dying heroically and far too young, Sean Ryan inspired his mother to
embark on her own life-altering adventure of dangerous remembrance,
whose hard-won summit memorial is this moving and beautifully crafted
memoir."
-Hal Espen, editor, Outside, 1999-2006
Synopsis
"The literature of adventure is replete with tales of fatal outcomes, but
this honest and brave book about a mother and the life and death of her
mountain-climbing son expands and enriches our necessary knowledge of
the grief and loss that disaster exacts from surviving family members and
friends. To say that a book about the rawest grief and deepest sorrow is a
great pleasure to read-that it's a book of delights and uncanny discoveries
and not just of tears-is perhaps not as contradictory as it seems. For in
dying heroically and far too young, Sean Ryan inspired his mother to
embark on her own life-altering adventure of dangerous remembrance,
whose hard-won summit memorial is this moving and beautifully crafted
memoir."
-Hal Espen, editor, Outside, 1999-2006