Book Excerpt
FEARLESS: A MEMOIR One Woman’s Quest to Climb Mount Everest By Sandra B. Klatz
Page 160
At forty-six years old, all the things I had been told growing up about what my life should look like, fell apart around me. I was divorced. My career was in ruins. I didn’t have relationships, friends and family to fall back on in my darkest moments, because I had never been taught how to nurture them. But most importantly, I had never been taught to nurture the relationship with myself.
So, there I was, alone in my living room, about to pop open another bottle of wine, pour my heartache and my fear into another oversized glass of red, the news serving as wallpaper on the background, when a story came on about a group of local climbers heading to Everest. There was something about the mountain that called to me, the freedom of it, the escape...but mainly, the challenge of taking on something new, something no one had ever expected of me. And I found myself wondering, “What would my life look like if I had never been afraid? What would it look like if I could free myself from self-criticism and judgment?”