By Wendy L. Booker
ISBN-10: 098877030X
ISBN-13: 9780988770300
After a devastating MS prognosis, Wendy Booker fell haphazardly into operating the Boston Marathon for charity. From that one uncomplicated act, a rare sequence of situations unfolds that's not anything wanting kismet. Overcoming disease and divorce, and tackling one of many hardest mountains on this planet two times, Wendy reveals herself atop Denali (Mt. McKinley, Alaska) in 2004 on the age of fifty. That accomplishment propels her subsequent aspiration: to climb the Seven Summits (the optimum top on all of the seven continents). persist with her inspiring, poignant, and occasionally hilarious adventures as she seeks to overcome the mountains on her record with the intimidating specter of Mt. Everest looming at the horizon, and discovers an entire new international alongside the way.
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