“From Operating Room to Oxygen Shortage: How a Young Doctor Discovered the Rhythm of Survival on Everest”
Not a nature lover? No problem. You don’t have to be any one way or have a penchant for any single activity to find yourself reflected in these pages. Not really into adventure narratives or thrill-seeking? That’s okay; something else will resonate with you, as it has for my friend, who’s since ordered the book of her own volition and delighted at the surprising word choices and startling images. I suspect you’ll be spellbound by Zieman’s breathtaking, poetry-like prose too. Or you’ll find a different takeaway. Whatever your identity — climber, doctor, dancer, writer, Jew — come as you are, with a reverence for story and an unquenchable curiosity, and leave with a deeper understanding of what it means to be human: “fragmented and whole” and electrically alive for as long as the mountain will hold you.
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