Rising: Becoming the First North American Woman on Everest

by Sharon Wood

Book Overview

2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition Category Finalist in Mountain Literature

On May 20, 1986, high on Mount Everest, Sharon Wood was ready to give up. Snow plumes swirled off the summit ridge and spilled down the North Face, engulfing her. A four-hundred-foot high rock wall, the crux of the Hornbein Couloir, loomed above--impossible. Then Wood's partner, Dwayne Congdon, handed her the end of the rope and said, "your lead." Hours later,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680512625
• ISBN13: 9781680512625
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"