A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
When I had my first child years ago and was mom-trapped in a chair for three hours while she napped on me, I read my first novel about climbing, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer detailing the deadly 1996 Mt. Everest expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers. This book was followed soon after by Anatoli Boukreev’s book The Climb telling his side of that same story. For someone who’s never climbed anything taller than a steep hill, I have a strange draw to these kinds of stories! Fast forward almost three decades, and when Amazon First Reads offered A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story, a 2024 memoir written by one of the all-time most successful female rock climbers, American Beth Rodden, I grabbed it. I’m not sure what inspired me to finally read it two years later, other than craving a non-fiction read for a change, but I’m glad I did. Rodden’s story is quite a compelling one! In 2000, Rodden, her then-boyfriend Tommy Caldwell - another renowned rock climber, and two ...
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