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In Rising, Wood reflects on the seventy days she spent on the mountain and on the pivotal experiences and influences that brought her to that staggeringly beautiful and austere corner of the world. Beyond the physical hardships, she faced personal challenges as an outlier in the male bastion of Himalayan climbing. These were compounded by the vexing presence of her past mentor and lover with his new girlfriend on the American team climbing on the same side of the mountain. It didnt help that the media pitched the two women as rivals, both vying to become the first North American woman to reach the summit of the highest mountain in the world. Wood rose to all these challenges, finding camaraderie and inspiration among her teammates, particularly in the expedition cook, a strong woman whose perspectives were essential to the teams remarkable esprit de corps, as well as with the other woman, her so-called American rival.
Rising is both a gripping, adrenalin-filled mountain story and a reflective memoir that reaches beyond the summit to explore a life lived in Everests long shadow: unexpected acclaim, outrageous expectations, and personal struggles. As Wood tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adventure, change, growth, and humility. It is a tale that feels poignantly relevanta testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations, or self-imposed barriers.
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I lead the first pitch of Bourgeau Right-Hand in the Canadian Rockies in 1985. (Photo by Pat Morrow)
The Canadian Everest Light Team: Standing, left to right: Laurie Skreslet and Kevin Doyle. Back row, left to right: Barry Blanchard, Dan Griffith, Dwayne Congdon, James Blench and Dave McNab. Front row, left to right: Jim Elzinga, me, Chris Shank, Albi Sole and Dr. Bob Lee. Jane Fearing is missing from the photo. (Photo The Continental Bank)
Everest Light Route (Credit: Google Earth, Image Landsat / Coper-nicus, US Dept of State Geographer, Image 2019 CNES / Airbus, Image 2019 DigitalGlobe)
Albi hefts a box onto our cargo trucks in Lhasa, bound for Basecamp. (Photo by Jim Elzinga)
Team members walk down the glacier at 6,000 metres. Camp Two is hidden in a hollow (centre page) at the lowest point of the rock face. Our route follows the lefthand edge of the rock to gain the snow arte (spur) above. (Photo by Jim Elzinga)
Jane makes pancakes in our kitchen shelter at Camp Two. (Photo by Jim Elzinga)
A view from around 7,200 metres shows the 1.5-kilometre stretch of ridge we follow to reach Camp Five at the base of Everests upper pyramid. (Photo by Jim Elzinga)
Team members are on their way down the West Ridge and nearing Camp Four at 7,300 metres. (Team photo)
The summit bid meeting is held in the Camp Two kitchen shelter. Left to right: Barry, Dwayne (hidden behind Barry), Albi and me. (Photo by Jim Elzinga)
Laurie helps Dwayne and me recover at Camp Five on our descent from the summit. (Photo by Dan Griffith)
My son Robin, age five, on a family climbing day in Cougar Creek in Canmore in 1995. (Photo by Colleen Campbell)
Kevin, Jim, James and Barry (left to right) are delighted to hear from Dwayne and me that we are twenty feet from the summit. (Photo by Chris Shank)
RISING
RISING
Becoming the First North
American Woman on Everest
SHARON WOOD
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Copyright 2019 by Sharon Wood
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First editions published simultaneously in 2019 in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., Madeira Park, BC, and in the United States of America by Mountaineers Books, Seattle.
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Epigraph on page 5 from Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M. D. Herter Norton. Copyright 1934, 1954 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed 1962, 1982 by M. D. Herter Norton.
Part 1 quote on page 11 adapted from Scared of Bears and Scared of Being Scared, by Barbara La Fontaine, published in Sports Illustrated, July 18, 1966, 51.
Part 2 quote on page 181 from Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, 2005 by Haruki Murakami. Used by permission of ICM Partners and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Developmental editor: Lucy Kenward
Copyeditor: Brianna Cerkiewicz
Design and layout: Lorraine Rath
Cover photograph of Sharon Wood by Mikael Kjellstrom republished with the express permission of Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Frontispiece: Sharon Wood on the summit of Mount Everest, May 20, 1986 (Photo by Dwayne Congdon)
All Everest Light expedition photographs were taken by expedition members with cameras provided by Leica.
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Printed on recycled paper
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-68051-262-5
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-68051-263-2
... I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the
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