A formerly obese and bulimic cocaine addict recounts how the death of a friend helped her overcome her problems and reach amazing goals, which included climbing the peaks of Mount Everest. 60,000 first printing. Tour.
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After beating bulimia and the twin addictions of alcohol and cocaine, climbing mountains would probably seem like a walk in the park. For Margo Chisholm, author of To the Summit, her quest to become the first woman to climb the highest mountain on each continent--known to the mountain-climbing community as "the Seven Summits"--was her victory march. Traveling from Africa to Antarctica to the Himalayas, Chisholm chased her dream, scaling mountain after mountain, with only Everest eluding her.
Coauthored with Ray Bruce, Chisolm's story is an inspiring one. Even her failure to reach Everest's summit becomes a triumph of acceptance.
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Chisholm chose mountain climbing and adventure travel as a means to overcome dysfunctional behavior that included bulimia and alcoholism. Between 1988 and 1993, she climbed six of the Seven Summits (the highest peaks of the seven continents) and was the oldest woman (42 years) to climb Mt. Vinson in the Antarctic. Her two attempts on Mt. Everest were turned back just before the summit push. The joy and techniques of climbing are acknowledged, but Chisholm is better at communicating the difficulties of changing emotional attitudes and of growing psychologically. Buy for substance-abuse support programs rather than for mountaineering collections.?Paula M. Strain, Rockville, Md.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A story of courage,
This review is from: To the Summit (Paperback)
If you are looking for a book that will motivate and inspire, this is it. This book is filled with inspiration and the message that one can make changes and choices in their life. Margo shares from her heart and soul and takes us on a fabulous journey of triumph.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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The best book I've read so far about mountaineering,
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This review is from: To the Summit (Paperback)
Margo is a special person who has given many people the inspiration to accomplish their dreams. This book was very difficult to put down. I'm now in the process of reading Margo's book again, just in case I missed something the first time around. The most stimulating reading for anyone who has dreams of accomplishing the challenges in their lives. Thanks Margo, for writting this book. Not only has your book inspired me,but it has also given me confidence that was beyond my wildest dreams!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Sexual Abuse and Everest,
This review is from: To the Summit: A Woman's Journey into the Mountains to Find Her Soul (Hardcover)
Like all well edited books, Chisolm and Bruce begin with the hook; Chisholm is beset with a violent, deep, wracking cough on the slopes of Everest during her 1992 summit bid. We've got to read the whole book to find out if she made it; the book is worth the read.
For misogynistic, macho, morons, Chisolm lets us know what she felt being a paying client in adventure climbing, an activity predominately run and participated in by men. For drug addicts, alcoholics, and fatsos, we learn much about Chisolm's recovery and its relationship to her climbing. For those of us who wonder about the background of those who write climbing books, we learn that Chisholm was sexually abused by her maternal grandfather, was told she was lying about it by her mother, sought and failed to be the first woman to climb the 7 summits, and could squat lift 175 pounds. We even learn some about an affair she had. Superhuman leaders of expeditions write most climbing books. Chisolm didn't start climbing until she was in her 40's. She doesn't write of harrowing escapes, dashing rescues, and first ascents. What she does is write everywoman's view of climbing the seven summits. She says a mantra while she climbs, she has committee meetings in her head, and she has written a remarkable and thoroughly enjoyable saga of striving to make her place in the world filled with glowing and vivid descriptions of the beauty and pain of the seven summits, the closeness of death and the reality of debilitating injury occurring within a few feet of where she stood. We can learn much from this woman and, for those of us who will never make a bleeding edge ascent, see how we might achieve some portion of what she accomplished within 5 years of leaving addiction, obesity, and inactivity behind.
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