Climbing High

“Her intimate and impressionistic report will…endure…her colorful observations make this account worth reading…Fascinating.”–“New York Times Book Review”Engrossing descriptions and shivering monologues put us on the mountain with her, immersed in the intensity of the struggle to the summit…“Climbing High goes beyond adventure saga to become a powerful study of connections between natural landscape and inner terrain.”–“Sierra Magazine”A stomach-clenching account…[with] a you-are-there intensity.“–“Elle”A concise, passionate account…a welcome addition to the growing library of books about extreme challenges surmounted by women.“–Andrea Gabbard, author of “The Woman’s Guide to Mountaineering“A concise, passionate account…a welcome addition to the growing library of books about extreme challenges surmounted by women”. – Andrea Gabbard, author of The Woman’s Guide to Mountaineering

Lene Gammelgaard has climbed some of the world’s highest mountains and has been an ocean sailor, lawyer, psychotherapist, and journalist. She cofounded several drug treatment centers and currently works as a writer and motivational speaker, owning her own company, which focuses on the development of human resources using wilderness as the classroom. She lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.