'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited
adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to
anyone who simply dreams of getting out and doing their own thing'
SIR CHRIS BONINGTON 'Ernest Shackleton listed those qualities an
explorer should possess over a century ago: optimism, patience,
idealism with imagination, and courage. Vanessa's qualities are
truly akin to these' ALEXANDRA SHACKLETON When Vanessa O'Brien was
made redundant in 2008 as part of the recession, she moved to Hong
Kong with her husband for his career and resigned herself to being
'just the wife'. There she was, aged 46, bored, uninspired,
unemployed. Was this going to be how she was going to live the rest
of her life? One night in the infamous Kee Club, over shots of
tequila, a friend suggested O'Brien climb Everest, and that was the
start of an epic journey she never looked back from as she climbed
Everest, K2 and many other mountains. This is her inspirational
story. As O'Brien says, she couldn't explain to her readers how she
got to the top of K2 at the age of 52 without being honest about
what came before. In To the Greatest Heights, she reveals the
trials and tribulations of her difficult childhood, and the result
is a life-affirming book that shows how she achieved these climbs
in spite of and because of her past. To read To the Greatest
Heights is to know that there is a path to overcoming the worst of
what happens to us, a path that helps us reach the summit of our
lives too, whatever our age.
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