With this book, we can understand something about the real hardships of hiking and the kind of fight that can be won in this field. The courage of the author, to carve a so inhospitable route with your monster on his back and broken feet the way I find very admirable, and also that it has never succumbed to the temptation to the - to give self-pity - quite understandable. Exciting is her portrayal of interweaving of inner, psychological issues and experiences in the lived of her external world. After reading the book one regrets of my heart that it goes no further and would prefer to pack a backpack immediately ...