Holding On

I read this very interesting book “Holding On” by Jo Gambi recently.

The book is all about Jo and her husband, Rob (who has had cancer twice) and how they leave their jobs and in an attempt to complete the “Seven Summits” mountaineering campaign, and also spend much of their living moments together doing what they loved. The “Seven Summits” campaign is about climbing the 7 tallest mountains in the world.

What is amazing is the fact that Rob has had cancer twice and despite being on and off from chemotherapy, and the many associated health problems, is courageous enough to climb Everest - among other very tough mountain peaks, one of them in the icy climes of Antarctica !! At one point, he had to get a helicopter to pick him up from some remote place so that he could get emergency hospital attention in Nepal…

I was really inspired by this book and it was an awesome read for me..

The part in which they climb to the peak of Mt. Everest was especially thrilling and very well narrated.