High Infatuation (A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity)
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| Object Title | High Infatuation (A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity) |
| Manufacturer | Steph Davis (The Mountaineers Books) |
| Page By | silversummit |
| Page Type | Sep 19, 2009 / Sep 19, 2009 |
| Object ID | 6364 |
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Book Summary
High Infatuation begins with Steph Davis leaving her college and piano studies to become a full-time climber. She chronicles in short essays some of her ascents and free climbs interspersed with her photos and thoughts about why she climbs and why she pushes herself so hard to keep doing more. You climb with her on the Salathe Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite, Torre Egge in Patagonia, the lesser known but awe-inspiring frozen Joshua Tower on Baffin Island and many other mountains in the world. Some of her climbing decisions are impulsive even incredulous but rational as she later explains. The reader will go with her as she runs, climbs and plans her adventures, feels fear, overcomes fears and succeeds!Product Details
Price: $16.95Paperback: 190 pages
Author: Steph Davis
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Year Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 13:978-1-59485-065-3
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silversummit - Sep 19, 2009 4:41 pm - Voted 5/5
A short, good read!I did find the ‘jumping around in time’ in the essays disconcerting and I’m much too grounded (literally) in life so I found myself begging for more details about her life, how she does it all. But because she is probably at the zenith of her climbing career she really doesn’t have to have any semblance of home and traditional trappings.
This is a great book for insight into why someone climbs and how someone find the inner strength to achieve one’s goal.