Rodden Beth - A Light Through The Cracks A Climber's Story - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden's inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma refusing to be held hostage by fear and taking a leap toward healing. Beth Rodden is twenty years old and already an elite rock climber when a climbing excursion in Kyrgyzstan escalates into a nightmare. Beth her boyfriend and two other climbers are kidnapped by militant rebels. After six harrowing days of hiding marching and dodging gunfire they miraculously escape captivity. But fear follows Beth home and pushing past it becomes a fixation. She and her boyfriend Tommy train obsessively achieving rock - climbing greatness and conquering each groundbreaking goal they set all the while burying the terrors of Kyrgyzstan deep inside. Then comes an unexpected breaking point. For Beth a woman at the top of her profession the only way to overcome the anxiety that still controls her is to let go of the lifeline she's been clinging to. Blowing up her successful and familiar life Beth clears a path to a new one a healthy new normal beyond the anxieties of the past and the myopic pursuit of athletic perfection. Charting a powerful journey of ambition hope love physical and emotional endurance and the true fulfilment of being oneself A Light through the Cracks is Beth's story of climbing up and through life.
Title: A Light Through The Cracks A Climber's Story
Author(s): Rodden Beth
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781503903791
Pages: 301 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2024
Category: Climbing & Mountaineering