El abrazo de la montaña

Embrace of the Mountain is an inspiring testimony of courage and resilience, the memoir of an extraordinary woman who did not give in to pain, but faced it and took it to the top of the world, Mount Everest. A heroine whose life hung by a thread. Mired in deep depression, in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family and repressing the abuse she suffered as a child, Silvia Vásquez-Lavado began to climb to face her demons. Only then, among the prodigious arms of the earth, would she find the peace and healing that she so needed.