Download e-book for iPad: Finding Jim by Susan Oakey-Baker

Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s fight to confront the realities of existence after the loss of life of her husband, well known mountain consultant Jim Haberl, the 1st Canadian to summit the main tricky mountain on the planet: K2. For fifteen years that they had frolicked adventuring jointly world wide: snowboarding the Himalaya, rafting in Nepal and mountain climbing in North the USA. In time, they bought married, solidified a house for themselves in Whistler, British Columbia, and deliberate on beginning a family members. however the destiny Susan had imagined used to be no longer intended to be, and whilst Jim used to be killed in an avalanche within the college variety of Wrangell-St. Elias nationwide Park in Alaska, she used to be confronted with a loss more than something she ever may have expected.

After Jim’s loss of life, Susan frolicked retracing the adventures they took jointly, in a determined and obsessive try to assemble and carry directly to as many thoughts of him as she may. She travelled to where in Alaska the place he misplaced his existence; searched the Queen Charlotte Islands the place they'd first met; trekked to the pinnacle of Mount Kilimanjaro the place that they had journeyed the yr prior to his demise; and scoured the hills round their Whistler domestic for strains of the fellow she had anticipated to spend the remainder of her lifestyles with.

In the spirit of books like Joan Didion’s The yr of Magical Thinking and Maria Coffey’s Fragile Edge, Susan Oakey-Baker writes eloquently of her efforts to relive and reanalyze her husband's loss of life, to defy the soreness that the sort of loss explanations and include the therapeutic strength of mountains, experience and desolate tract as she reimagines her new life.