Forget Me Not: A Memoir - Couverture souple

Lowe-Anker, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 159485274X ISBN 13 : 9781594852749

Editeur : Mountaineers Books, 2009

Synopsis

"Forget Me Not will stay with your forever. It is a beautifully written story of great love, great daring, great loss, and great recovery. Most of all, it is a story of great courage." - Tom Brokaw

High in the Himalaya, a world-class adventurer dies, leaving a wife, three young sons and a best friend to cope with their grief...

In 1999, well-known mountaineer, Alex Lowe, died tragically in an avalanche on the remote Himalayan Mountain Shishapangma, leaving his wife Jennifer alone to raise their three children. Alex was widely considered one of the greatest modern climbers of our time, and the world mourned his loss. Tom Brokaw interviewed Jennifer Lowe and Conrad Anker for Dateline, and Sting narrated and composed music for a tribute film, The Endless Knot.

While Jenni and her sons faced the absence of a husband and father, Alex's longtime climbing partner, Conrad Anker, who survived the accident that killed Lowe, faced his own grief and survivor's guilt. Jenni and Conrad gradually, and unexpectedly, found solace in each other.

Through letters and expedition notes from Alex, Forget Me Not spans continents and tells the story of three people whose lives intertwine to a degree they could never have imagined. Jenni's account takes readers inside a woman's heart and mind as she navigates her shattered life and survives, finding love through loss. From the valleys of Montana, to the peaks of the Himalayas, this is the story of growing up, falling in love, finding adventure, rejoicing in parenthood, living through heartbreak, and believing in possibility -- above all else.

Readers will be spit from their armchairs, soaring across the heights of the highest peaks, and into the heart of the American west--with the voice of a soulful friend guiding their path.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

JENNIFER LOWE is
a successful visual artist and the founder of the Khumbu Climbing Center in
Nepal, now part of the Juniper Fund (https: //www.thejuniperfund.org).

Born in Missoula, Jennifer spent parts of her childhood working
in the fields of her grandparent's homesteaded property in Montana's
Grasshopper Valley. Lowe's paintings are rendered in the vivid color and rich
texture of livestock markers and capture the whimsical images from her
imagination and the memories of her Montana upbringing.

Lowe constructs her own frames and decorates them with a
folk-art quality--each of which carries an element of the painting that it is
made for--giving her finished work a unique character. Lowe's work has been
featured in 22 shows throughout the West, shown alongside such well-known
Western artists as Thom Ross, Howard Post, Larry Pirnie, and Donna Howell
Sickels. Her works' appeal has landed it in private collections of such
luminaries as Peter Fonda, Michael Keaton, Jeff Bridges, and Jerry Spence, as well
as in the corporate collections of Patagonia and Chronicle Books.

She lives in Bozeman, Montana.

JON KRAKAUER is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction booksInto the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillmanas well as numerous magazine articles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mountaineers Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159485274X
• ISBN 13: 9781594852749
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible