In Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Arlene Blum's dramatic new memoir, she recounts her legendary mountain adventures and explores how her childhood fueled her need to climb and how, in turn, her climbing liberated her from her childhood.
Features:
- This memoir consists of short childhood vignettes, longer stories of her mountain adventures, and snapshots of her career as a scientist; intertwined, these three strands provide insights into how and why she left the flatlands of Illinois for the steep slopes of mountains around the world
