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Just another mountain : a memoir
Douglas, Sarah Jane2019
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In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her mother to breast cancer. Alone and adrift in the world, she very nearly gave up hope - but she'd made a promise to her mother that she would keep going no matter what. So she turned to the beautiful, dangerous, forbidding mountains of her native Scotland.; By walking in her mother's footsteps, she learns to accept her own troubled past, finding the strength to overcome her grief - and, ultimately, to carry on in the face of her own diagnosis twenty years later.
Main title:
Just another mountain : a memoir / Sarah Jane Douglas ; foreword by Chris Bonington.
Author:
Douglas, Sarah Jane, author
Imprint:
London : Elliott and Thompson Limited, 2019.
Collation:
273 p. ; 22 cm
Contents:
Contents; Foreword by Sir Chris Bonington xi; Prologue xiii; Phase One: Following Footsteps; One: The Hills Are Calling: Meall a' Bhuachaille - The Shepherd's Hill, April 2008 3; Two: Coincidence or Fate: Back to Bhuachaille, May 2008/Bynack More - The Big Cap, May 2008 13; Three: Doomed Champagne and Mountain Magic: Beinn Eighe - The File Hill, June 2008 27; Four: Cheating Myself: Ben Wyvis - The Hill of Terror, July 2008 45; Five: Becoming a Woman with a Plan: Beinn Alligin - The Jewelled Hill, August 2008 61; Six: Divergent Paths: Meall Fuar-mhonaidh - The Cold Rounded Hill, February 2010 71; Phase Two: Troubled Tracks; Seven: Keep Them Close: Nakara, Tanzania, June 2010 85; Eight: Where the Wind Blows: Naro Moru Gate to Simba Camp, 2,650 metre/Simba Camp to Kikelewa, 3,678 metres, June 2010 93; Nine: Where There's a Will There's a Way:Kikelewa to Mawenzi Tarn, 4,295 metres/Mawenzi to Kibo, 4,700 metres, June 2010 101; Ten: Hell on Earth: Kibo to Uhuru Peak, 5,895 metres, June 2010 113; Eleven: Dead Loss: Horombo Huts, 3,720 metres, June 2010 127; Twelve: Peaks and Troughs: The North Glen Shiel Ridge, June 2011 133; Thirteen: A Hatch and Despatch: Bidein a' Choire Sheasgaich and Lurg Mhor, October 2011 149; Fourteen: Slippery Slopes: Near Fersit, January 2012 161; Phase Three: Steps in the Sunshine; Fifteen: One Thing Leads to Something Else 173; Sixteen: Protecting Next of Kin 181; Seventeen: History Repeats Itself: Fisherfield, July 2013 195; Eighteen: Dark Horse: The Inaccessible Pinnacle, September 2013 203; Nineteen: Walking on Air: Aonach Mor and Aonach Beag - the Big Ridge and the Little Ridge, April 2014 213; Twenty: Early Illness: Kathmandu, Lukla and on to Monjo, 2-4 May 2014 221; Twenty-one: Onwards and Upwards:To Namche, Thyangboche, Dingboche, 5-7 May 2014 231; Twenty-two: Deliverance: Chukhung, 9-10 May 2014 247; Epilogue: Homeward Bound: Ben Nevis - The Venomous Mountain, July 2015 257; Postscript 263; Acknowledgements 267; Index 269
ISBN:
9781783964192 (hbk)1783964197 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.522092
Language:
English
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BRN:
23605