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[Rising, by Sharon Wood, was a finalist in the Mountain Literature category of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition.–Ed.]
In 1979 Sharon Wood took a snow stability workshop in the Canadian Rockies.
The instructor lectured on snow slope configuration using an image of a woman’s breast to illustrate weak vs. strong terrain features and the possibility of avalanches. “I was one of two women in the room and he shot me a sly smile,” Wood writes in her recently published memoir, Rising.
“Asshole.”
In 1986 Wood became the first North American woman to summit Mt. Everest (Chomolungma).
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Her achievement led to a long career as a public speaker, as she was celebrated as a feminist icon in the climbing world. However, as Wood reflects in Rising, 33 years later she is still grappling with her role in that 1986 climb, and the role of Everest in her life as a whole.
But aspects of the narrative also reveal that she still feels uneasy with the