Review: Contains Spoiler - Oddly Satisfying Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2012
This was an oddly unsatisfying "satisfying read." Although at first I thought, "What? Are you kidding me?" when I got to the end, I realized that I appreciated this candor about a failed endeavor, because usually what's written about are the successful superhuman journeys that few of us can match. We're human. We give up. We don't make it. We turn back when it gets too hard. We make stupid mistakes and don't do the research. I thought the author was going to "power through" her altitude sickness to get to the top like all literary travel heroines worth their salt. No. And what a Shining Example that sets for us. Sometimes it's smart to quit. And thus she lived to tell the tale. Definitely contains some funny lines.