End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood
- ISBN-10
- 1640090312
- ISBN-13
- 9781640090316
- Series
- End of the Rope
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-01
- Publisher
- Catapult
- Author
- Jan Redford
Description
"Jan Redford is a bad–ass. She is also a born storyteller." —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Redford finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Redford finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger, Redford tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Redford's telling of heart–stopping adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her laughter–filled memoir of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow.
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Other editions
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- 2018-04-03
- 272 pages
- Paperback
- Random House Canada
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- 2016-08-24
- 44 pages
- Paperback
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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