Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest
Oct 2012 · The Mountaineers Books
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"Maria Coffey's tale is at once a deeply personal love story and a penetrating look into the world of professional climbers. Such clarity and honesty are seldom seen in mountain writing." - Greg Child, author of Postcards from the Ledge
Critically acclaimed Fragile Edge won the coveted the International Literary Mountain prize for Maria Coffey's eloquently written story of how climbing tragedies affect those who are left behind. This is a powerful story describes how she survived the loss of her long-time partner, dealing with the sorrow and confusion, anger and healing.
With openness and honesty, Coffey describes her love affair with elite British mountaineer Joe Tasker, who perished with his climbing partner Peter Boardman while attempting Everest's then-unclimbed Northeast Ridge in 1982. She relives her experiences, first within the hard-partying mountaineering scene and then during her long journey to understanding and acceptance of the tragedy that cost her the man she loved. She gives us an insider's view of the life of a world-class mountaineer and recounts her deeply moving pilgrimage with Boardman's widow across Tibet, a journey that retraced Tasker and Boardman's steps to their abandoned Advance Base Camp at 21,000 feet on Everest.
"Maria Coffey's tale is at once a deeply personal love story and a penetrating look into the world of professional climbers. Such clarity and honesty are seldom seen in mountain writing." - Greg Child, author of Postcards from the Ledge
Critically acclaimed Fragile Edge won the coveted the Inte...
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Joan an Mary jane Pascal
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September 18, 2023
what an insightful and deeply raised topic! Thanks for ur and all that matters to you. I've read the book in minutes! I'm grateful for your talents ☺️. Highly recommend this author to anyone period. you'll never take your life for granted.
Jennifer Graziano
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May 21, 2025
Concentration camps are for the solar system including clouds; they have waxing & waning light phases also, blackberry fruit trees are all black lighting. Snowing to set in national parks; then eat concentrated fruit tree juice extract from the forest orchard, and rain to rise. produce light A cloud covers the bottom of a light for normal shadow; the open top has domain perimeter activity. A half year cover hibernates the other half; blossoms with a thunder movement waking up. Thundering sounds & shakes is simply the snap; crackle, pop that begins spring crater blossom for each one. Craters set because they're have phase; full light fruit blossom orbit a star until beginning to phase.
Connie Herrera
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July 11, 2023
loved the book..had never thot' of the people left behind. so glad I read it!!!
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