“From Operating Room to Oxygen Shortage: How a Young Doctor Discovered the Rhythm of Survival on Everest”
Like the company I keep, I’m not the most likely candidate to pick up and love a so-called “adventure story” either. Despite my day job as a Pilates teacher, not only do I have close to zero non-Pilates-related athletic abilities or fascination with sports — extreme, gravity-defying, or otherwise — but I also have very little interest in armchair adventuring or even personally communing with nature. I hesitate to advertise my allergy to the outdoors because people tend to take it about as well as they’d take someone’s hatred of puppies. (For the record, I think puppies are adorable!) But it is true that a dentist once broke up with me for not being “outdoorsy enough” when I was 25 — narrator Mimi’s age at the start of the book when we’re dropped right into the tensest moment on the mountain, left unresolved, before we go back in time to get the necessary backstory of the childhood and young adult life that ultimately leads Zieman here: to “the knife-edge” of a cliff and her limitations.
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