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Off Trail - Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies (Paperback)
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Off Trail - Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies (Paperback)
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Loot Price R592
Discovery Miles 5 920
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Only one person believed Jane Parnell when she reported being raped
at twenty-one: the mountain man who first led her up one peak after
another in the Colorado Rockies and who then became her husband.
Parnell took to mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains as a means to
overcome her family's history of mental illness and the trauma of
the rape. By age thirty she became the first woman to climb the 100
highest peaks of the state. But regaining her footing could not
save her by-now-failing marriage. Unprepared emotionally and
financially for singlehood, she kept climbing - the 200 highest
peaks, then nearly all of the 300 highest. The mountains were the
one anchor in her life that held. Finding few contemporary role
models to validate her ambition, Parnell looked to the past for
inspiration - to English travel writer Isabella Bird, who also
sought refuge and transformation in the Colorado Rockies, notably
by climbing Longs Peak in 1873 with the notorious mountain man
Rocky Mountain Jim. Reading Bird's now-classic A Lady's Life in the
Rocky Mountains emboldened Parnell to keep moving forward. She was
not alone in her drive for independence. Parnell's memoir spans
half a century. Her personal journey dramatizes evolving gender
roles from the 1950s to the present. As a child, she witnessed the
first ascent of the Diamond on Longs Peak, the ""Holy Grail"" of
alpine climbing in the Rockies. In 2002, she saw firsthand the
catastrophic Colorado wildfires of climate change, and five years
later, she nearly lost her leg in a climbing accident. In the
tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Tracy Ross's The Source of
All Things, Parnell's mountaineering memoir shows us how, by
pushing ourselves to the limits of our physical endurance and by
confronting our deepest fears, we can become whole again.
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