ENOUGH: CLIMBING TOWARD A TRUE SELF ON MOUNT EVEREST

A searching uplifting memoir by the celebrated groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountains highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soulAt twenty-seven when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of Mount Everest she felt ravaged by defeat. Driven by a relentless lifelong quest to prove to herself her family and the world that she was enough she had set herself an incredible goalto become the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. The failure battered her spirit and left her struggling to keep her tenuous grip on hope the candid and adventurous spirit of Cheryl Strayeds Wild Enough is a story of a life in which the most dangerous mountain faces became a refugeuntil suddenly they too no longer seemed safe. From a childhood marked by conflict betrayal and predation Reid propelled herself to the top of the mountain climbing world summiting and guiding on the worlds most challenging peaks and establishing herself as a woman unafraid to throw elbows in a milieu dominated by men. And yet for every summit she reached her valleys of inner turmoilover her estrangement with the family she believed shed destroyed as a child; over relationships that cycled through deception and infidelitygrew deeper and more self-destructive. Eventually she could not keep these worlds from colliding especially after a series of tragedies at dangerous elevations took the lives of her mentors and friends. Forced at last to face herself Reid made her most perilous climb yettoward the uncertain promise of forgiveness and self-acceptance.A beautiful aching memoir of a journey with life-and-death stakes on the mountain and off Enough bares the soul of one of the worlds greatest climbers from the rarified heights visible only at thin-air altitudes to the dark depths home to demons familiar to anyone who has struggled to find compassion for themselves.