Breaking trail arlene blum5/28/2023 I have read countless non-fictional accounts of mountaineering and high altitude feats by a variety of climbers, and more often than not, the authors and their stories are incredible. There's more than a little fantasy in this book, On her Annapurna trip two women died heading for the summit, Instead she maintains that they "were able to meet the difficulties on their own." She asked for my friends and other men to help rescue them. She also doesn't mention that when one of her party became deathly ill, She doesn't mention the strident effort she made to keep anyone from socializing with members of her party in the evening hours. Two friends of mine, Stuart Ferguson and Steve Sickles climbed McKinleyĪt exactly the same time as the Blum party. She didn't defy anyone by climbing McKinley, the mountain has always been open to all. Too bad she isn't honest about some of the details. Reading about climbs is almost as much fun as climbing. I started climbing at age 17 and started reading the books the same year. I lost count long ago as to how many climbing books I've read,
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