19 May Telluride Library & Mountainfilm: Author Talk with Cassidy Randall, 5/22!
Thursday, May 22, 5:30 pm, Mountainfilm and Wilkinson Public Library (WPL) host the annual Town Read. The event features author Cassidy Randall in a conversation about her book “Thirty Below.”
“Thirty Below” is the gripping true story of the first all-women’s ascent of Denali in 1970, marking the first all-female summit of any of the world’s highest peaks. The author talk and book-signing will be held at WPL and is free and open to everyone! Between the Covers Bookstore will be in attendance at the event selling the book.
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In one of the first mainstream adventure/exploration books, a la Into Thin Air and The Wager, featuring women, Thirty Below tells the gripping, true story of the first all-women’s ascent of Denali in 1970—which was the first all-female ascent of any of the world’s high peaks.
By 1970, we had sent men to the moon, and women still hadn’t stood on the highest points on Earth. Popular belief held that they were incapable of withstanding high altitudes, savage elements, and carrying heavy loads. Which made the defiant idea of one climber, Alaskan mountaineer and doctor Grace Hoeman, all the more audacious.
Everyone told Grace and her six-woman team that it couldn’t be done. Then, when disaster struck at the worst time on their expedition, the team’s actions would decide not only their fate, but how the world would judge them—and all women’s ability to climb and survive the fiercest mountains.
“An entrancing tale of a harrowing adventure.” –Kirkus Reviews STARRED Review
“Fast paced, with incredible characters who make you appreciate how far mountaineering (and society in general) has progressed in the last fifty years.” —Alex Honnold, professional climber and author of Alone on the Wall
“The saga of how these six athletes pulled off their historic feat, while upending a host of ingrained perceptions that had long suffused this most macho of sports, is an immensely enjoyable read—part Into Thin Air, part Thelma and Louise.” —Hampton Sides, NYT bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice and The Wide Wide Sea
BIO
Cassidy Randall, courtesy Telluride Library.
Cassidy Randall is an award-winning writer who tells stories on the environment, adventure, and people who expand human potential. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, the New York Times, TIME, Atavist, Outside, and Men’s Journal, among others. She wrote THE HARD PARTS with Paralympian Oksana Masters, which won an Alex Award from the American Library Association and was listed as one of the best sports books of the year by the Times. Her work has been awarded the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal in Adventure Writing, short-listed for the True Story Award, and included in The Year’s Best Sports Writing. She lives in Montana.
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