intheshadowofthemountainbookreview

A rave rating based on 5 book reviews for In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado.

2022年2月1日 — In her powerful memoir, “In the Shadow of the Mountain,” Silvia Vasquez-Lavado whisks readers from Silicon Valley to the summit of Everest. Both ...

An emotionally raw and courageous memoir. ... A Peruvian-born mountaineer and humanitarian tells the story of how mountain-climbing helped her and a group of ...

A great book about a suspecious death and a 74-year-old family secret. The plot is simple but the narration made it very interesting. The story moves with a ...

2022年2月1日 — A book everyone should read because we can now all climb Mt Everest together and overcome, through this amazing book. This entire review has ...

A Latina hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality ...

In the Shadow of the Mountain is a remarkable story of heroism, one which awakens in all of us a lust for adventure, an appetite for risk, and faith in our own ...

Silvia's memoir is not a story of an arrogant tale of forging herself through the sweat and grit of alpine mountaineering but a journey to understand what ...