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Climbing the seven volcanoes : a search for strength

Cairns, Sophie2020
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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.
Author:
Imprint:
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2020.
Collation:
284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781398100329 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.522092796.522
LC class:
GV199.92
Local class:
796.522
Language:
English
BRN:
2658169
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