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Forget Me Not: A Memoir

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If Alex would have lived long enough to getting around to writing a book it would have been beautiful and intriguing; he was someone who had a way with words. This is a love story and Jennifer shares their blossoming relationship, marriage, and family life with three sons in great detail. She clearly draws on carefully kept journals and letters, and this allows her to provide some really precise, immediate memories and descriptions of events.

Both shared a deep love of the outdoors, rugged athletic pursuits, the serenity of being close to nature, and the support of enduring and intimate friendships they developed with colleagues, neighbors, and family members. By the same token, if you're big especially into reading about mountaineering, I'd recommend this book very highly.Forget Me Not" spans continents and tells the story of three people whose lives intertwine to a degree they could never have imagined. I am just over halfway done, and perhaps when I finish, I will have a better taste in my mouth for Alex, who this book is written for. At the same time I sensed what it would be like to be married to a person so absorbed in a dangerous sport/hobby.

Like Chagall, the work of Lowe-Anker reveals the painter deeply rooted in her community, anchored in local culture, equally inspired by the great mystery of spirituality as by the risk-taker’s determination to look death in the face. He was the Lance Armstrong of mountaineering, only taller and handsomer and happier, and he was the real deal. After Lowe died in 1999 during a Himalayan expedition with his friend Conrad Anker, she and Anker married, and he adopted the Lowe’s three children.I read this book around the time I watched Free Solo and Meru, as well as read Into Thin Air and Conrad Anker's The Lost Explorer. I also have issues with so many people spending such money, not just on climbing, but on seemingly using the Sherpas to further their sport. Jennifer Lowe-Anker has also inherited the pioneer strain, and there is a clarity, a lucidity, sometimes even a toughness to her writing that gives this book the balance it needs. It’s a tale of love, parenthood, familial bonds, honor, integrity, struggle, tragedy and the selfishness and selflessness that are inherent in the climbing ethos.

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