Finding Jim / Susan Oakey-Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oakey-Baker, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oakey-Baker, Susan.

Haberl, Jim, 1958-1999.

Haberl, Jim.

Oakey-Baker, Susan--Travel.

Mountaineers--British Columbia--Biography.

Mountaineers.

Adventure and adventurers--British Columbia--Biography.

Adventure and adventurers.

Husbands--Death.

Husbands.

British Columbia--Biography.

British Columbia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker's struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the world: skiing the Himalaya, rafting in Nepal and mountaineering in North America. In time, they got married, solidified a home for themselves in Whistler, British Columbia, and planned on starting a family. But the future Susan had imagined was not meant to be, and when Jim was killed in an avalanche in the University Range of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, she was faced with a loss greater than anything she ever could have expected. After Jim's death, Susan spent time retracing the adventures they took together, in a desperate and obsessive attempt to gather and hold on to as many memories of him as she could. She travelled to the place in Alaska where he lost his life; searched the Queen Charlotte Islands where they had first met; trekked to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro where they had journeyed the year before his death; and scoured the hills around their Whistler home for traces of the man she had expected to spend the rest of her life with. In the spirit of books like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Maria Coffey's Fragile Edge , Susan Oakey-Baker writes eloquently of her efforts to relive and reanalyze her husband's death, to defy the pain that such a loss causes and embrace the healing power of mountains, adventure and wilderness as she reimagines her new life.

Contents:

Part 1 Before. One Beginning

Two K2

Three After K2

Four Beginning Again

Five Taking the Next Step

Six Breaking Ground

Part 2 After. Seven Day One

Eight Day Two

Nine Day Three

Ten Day Four

Eleven Day Five

Twelve Day Six

Thirteen Day Seven

Fourteen Day Eight

Fifteen Day Nine

Sixteen Day Ten

Seventeen Day Eleven

Eighteen Day Twenty

Nineteen Day Thirty-five

Twenty Day Forty-three

Twenty-one Day Fifty

Twenty-two Return to the Queen Charlottes

Twenty-three Out of the Mouths of Babes

Twenty-four Back to Kilimanjaro

Twenty-five Don't Waste a Crisis

Twenty-six Christmas

Twenty-seven A New Year

Twenty-eight First Anniversary

Twenty-nine Mother Earth Can Take It

Thirty Drawn Back to Kilimanjaro

Thirty-one Stress Leave

Part 3 Healing. Thirty-two Beginning a Year To Heal

Thirty-three Moving Through Spring

Thirty-four Scott Returns

Thirty-five Nepal

Part 4 Return. Thirty-six Commitment

Thirty-seven Letting Go Again

Thirty-eight Do What's Good for Sue

Thirty-nine Drawing from the Heart

Forty France

Forty-one Home

Forty-two Joe

Part 5 Hereafter. Forty-three The Perfect Heart

Forty-four Change.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-927330-72-6

1-927330-71-8

OCLC:

863054110