ENOUGH Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest

Melissa Arnot Reid is the first American woman to conquer Everest without oxygen. But this success seems less taxing than her long battle to find peace and love within herself. There is a resoluteness in Reid's tone that fits the hard exterior she needed to survive her complicated childhood, the mountains, and the male-dominated guiding milieu. It takes a Tibetan goddess and a whole lot of time for Reid to climb her way out of self-destructive tendencies and to succeed in relationships and her career. That edge never leaves her voice even as she accepts that it's okay to be vulnerable. Reid is one tough cookie. A.B. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2025]