Thirst
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
It's the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT), with a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. Anderson had hiked all three by the time she was 25; a few years later she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life to walk back into those mountains. Here she shares her willingness to turn away from the predictability of a more traditional life in an effort to seek out what most fulfills her. -- adapted from info provided
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At first, I was skeptical of her blind desire to set a world record, even as she was facing death by dehydration, but then she explored her childhood and I understood why she needed to prove to herself and to the world that she could do it. I'm only at 16% of the book so we'll see. So far, it's 3 stars.
Update: I just finished the book and wow, what an epic ending and epilogue! I bumped the rating from 3 to 4 stars.
Read and reviewed: 2020-01-30
