02343cam a2200361 i 4500 1567538916 TxAuBib 20240906120000.0 240803s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024442175 9781503903814 hardcover 1503903818 hardcover 9781503903791 paperback 1503903796 paperback TxAuBib rda Rodden, Beth, author. A light through the cracks : a climber's story / Beth Rodden. First edition. New York : Little A, [2024] ©2024. 287 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Beth Rodden is twenty years old and already an elite rock climber when a climbing excursion in Kyrgyzstan escalates into a nightmare. Beth, her boyfriend, and two other climbers are kidnapped by militant rebels. After six harrowing days of hiding, marching, and dodging gunfire, they miraculously escape captivity. But fear follows Beth home, and pushing past it becomes a fixation. She and her boyfriend, Tommy, train obsessively, achieving rock-climbing greatness and conquering each groundbreaking goal they set, all the while burying the terrors of Kyrgyzstan deep inside. Then comes an unexpected breaking point. For Beth, a woman at the top of her profession, the only way to overcome the anxiety that still controls her is to let go of the lifeline she's been clinging to. Blowing up her successful and familiar life, Beth clears a path to a new one--a healthy new normal beyond the anxieties of the past and the myopic pursuit of athletic perfection. Charting a powerful journey of ambition, hope, love, physical and emotional endurance, and the true fulfillment of being oneself, A Light through the Cracks is Beth's story of climbing up and through life" -- Provided by publisher. 20240906. Rodden, Beth. Mountaineers United States Biography. Women mountaineers United States Biography. Rock climbing United States. Kidnapping victims United States Biography. TXKIP