End of the Rope
Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood
In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, the gritty, funny, achingly honest story of a young climber's struggle to become whole by testing herself on mountains and life.
As a young teenager Jan Redford runs away from a cottage and her abusive father and throws herself against a 100-foot cliff face. Somewhere in that shaky, outraged kid is a bedrock belief in her right to exist, which carries her to the top. In that brief flash of victory, she sets her sights on becoming a climber.
Falling in love with climbing eventually leads to falling in love with the climbers in her tight-knit western Canadian climbing community. It also means that the people she loves regularly vanish in an instant, caught…
$22.00
August 4, 2020
Jan Redford lives with her family in Squamish, B.C., where she mountain bikes, trail runs, climbs, and skis. Her stories, articles and personal essays have been published in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Mountain Life, Explore and anthologies, and have won or been short-listed in several writing contests. She is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU and holds a master’s in creative writing from UBC. Her forthcoming book, End of the Rope: A Mountain Memoir, is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life; to lead, not follow. www.janredford.com
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