Year: 2007
Author: Steph Davis
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 978-1594850653
English language
Format: DjVu
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 186
Steph Davis takes risks, trusts her impulses, makes decisions based on what feels right - and never looks back. Soon alter she was introduced to rock climbing, she abandoned the respectability of university life and a potential career as a concert pianist to become a "dirtbag climber," living out of her grandmother's hand me down Oldsmobile sedan with Fletcher, her loyal Blue heeler mix.Today, Davis is one of he most accomplished female climbers in the world, having made first ascents in Pakistan, Patagonia, Baffin Island, and Kyrgyzstan. She was also the first woman to free climb the huge Salathe wall on El Capitan in Yosemite and the first woman to summit Torre Egger in Patagonia.
In High Infatuation, Davis writes on universal themes of life, love, friendship, and personal empowerment, as expressed through a career in climbing. We wait tensely with her through weeks of rain, wind, snow, and sleet, hoping for the weather to improve in the mountains of Patagonia, then feel her heartache as her relationship with the man she will marry is tested by her need for movement and challenge. Davis draws us into her struggles with safety, independence, ambition, and compassion. And by following this young woman's journey, we learn what it means i live a truly adventurous life.
1 HIGH INFATUATION 9
2 SAFE PLACES 16
Falling 18
The Rock and I 25
3 BIENVENIDOS A PATAGONIA 28
Maybe the Swiss Were Right 30
A Crack in the Window 34
4 OPENING OUT 38
In the Land of Kyrgyzstan 41
On My Own 50
5 JOY AT SUDDEN DISAPPOINTMENT 56
Deep Cold 58
Four Thousand Pull-Ups 70
6 RUNNING AROUND 80
Out of Bounds 81
House of Wind 96
7 KNOCKING FROM THE INSIDE 99
We've Always Run 101
Traveling Light 102
Eternal Sunrise 103
8 BEGINNER'S MIND 106
About Time 107
Breaking Free 110
9 LOVE DOGS 126
A Life of Patagonia 128
Torre Egger 145
10 GOING IN 154
All the Way: Salathe Free 156
Acknowledgments 180
Photo Credits and Reprint Permissions 181
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