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Hardcover Rising: Becoming the First North American Woman on Everest Book
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ISBN: 1680512625

ISBN13: 9781680512625

Rising: Becoming the First North American Woman on Everest

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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,...

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