A woman in winter gear with a helmet, backpack, and dark jacket sitting on snow in a snowy mountain landscape. Prayer flags with colorful cloths are hanging above her, fluttering in the cold wind. In the background, a snowy mountain ascent with climbers can be seen.

People think mountaineering is about summits. It isn’t. It’s about surviving the middle—when you’re too far up to turn back, but too broken to go on. That’s where the real story lives. That’s where I wrote mine.

She Writes Press

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Simon & Schuster

“Her story reads like a tale told to a trusted friend in a windblown tent, high on a bleak Himalayan ridge.”

— Clint Willis

“An incredible work of art.”

— Alison Levine

“Laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreaking, somber, soulful, thrilling, and ultimately redemptive.”

— Editor-in-Chief