How you live is how you climb.
That mantra appears repeatedly in Jan Redford’s new book, End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage and Motherhood. In it, Redford writes about how her life was often like how she climbed – some days focussed, confident, fearless and flowing. But other days did not go so smoothly.
As an author, though, Redford shines. She is alternately – at times simultaneously – entertaining, heart-wrenching, kneeslappingly hilarious and gripping as a steep rock climb with thin, sloping holds.
One main theme of her book is something most climbers can relate to – self-doubt. And, she admitted with total confidence in an interview with Gripped, “It’s very hard to write a memoir about self-doubt when you’re afflicted with self-doubt.”
No doubt.
Redford transcends that self-doubt, however,…
