Reviews – Recent Books

Technically, it’s one book that I recently read. Not an especially long read, but a hard one in many ways. The title, Where You’ll Find Me, published in 2015, is an account of the rescue attempt of a hiker named Kate Matrasova, a New York City-based hiker who was attempting to traverse five peaks in New Hampshire’s Presidential Range. By all accounts, she was a physically fit, experienced hiker who had been to a number of different places worldwide where the hiking challenges were brutal. Unfortunately, her talent and experience didn’t account for the challenge of these mountains. The Presidential Range is notorious not necessarily because of the climbing (New Hampshire is the home 48 mountains where the summits are 4,000 feet high at a minimum) but because of the weather. One of the mountains in the middle of the range is Mount Washington. At a height of 6,288 feet it is the tallest mountain in the northeastern United States. While it is not near the height of Mount Rainier or McKinley (Denali), it has some of the fiercest weather world-wide. High winds and cold temperatures are not unheard of in summer, and a regular occurrence in winter. Her hike was intended to be a fourteen hour trek. She had researched the route, the weather conditions, and what she would need for gear. She also had selected six bailout locations where she could get below the tree line if she got into trouble. The distance wasn’t exceptionally long, but the weather conditions would t...
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