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Boundless
KAREN DARKE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN BEING, and a woman who has touched the lives of many through her spirit for adventure. A keen runner and mountaineer, she was paralysed in a rock-climbing accident on a Scottish sea cliff at the age of twenty-one. Facing life in a wheelchair, Karen chose to continue her adventures - breaking preconceived ideas of just what was possible for someone who could feel or move nothing below their chest. In her first book If You Fall she wrote about recovering from this accident, and her return to adventures and the value of embracing change. Boundless carries on from If You Fall and covers a two year period in which she faces her biggest challenges yet - both in the wilderness and at home. These begin with a 600 kilometre crossing of the Greenland ice cap on a sit-ski, a month long journey across one the world’s last great expanses of wilderness. It was a journey which led to Karen confronting her greatest fear, returning to the ropes and climbing the iconic overhanging rock-face of El Capitan. Boundless is far more than just a book of expedition heroics, and instead offers a raw, funny and honest view of a life that really is lived at the edge.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 29, 2012
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February 1, 2024
"Karen Darke was a keen runner and mountaineer, then at the age of 21 she fell from a cliff and became paralysed from the chest down....." quoted from the blurb on the back cover of this book.
Fast forward on c 14 years and this book tells of her return to "adventure beyond limits". She's clearly a lady of almost boundless tenacity in her quest for adventure. When one considers the mundane everyday obstacles that folk in wheel chairs have to surmount ~ negotiating busy pavements, access to buildings, access to public transport, negotiating airports, whatever ~ it must be easy to effectively throw in the towel and just stay at home doing nothing. Karen Darke goes to the opposite extreme in undertaking "expeditions" that most able bodied folk would stay well clear of. The book tells of 3 such expeditions. Good on her! But she is incredibly dependent on others, particularly those with whom she is journeying; and her recounting of her travails does get a bit repetitive at times. (No spoilers). Much credit to her for her endeavours, though
Fast forward on c 14 years and this book tells of her return to "adventure beyond limits". She's clearly a lady of almost boundless tenacity in her quest for adventure. When one considers the mundane everyday obstacles that folk in wheel chairs have to surmount ~ negotiating busy pavements, access to buildings, access to public transport, negotiating airports, whatever ~ it must be easy to effectively throw in the towel and just stay at home doing nothing. Karen Darke goes to the opposite extreme in undertaking "expeditions" that most able bodied folk would stay well clear of. The book tells of 3 such expeditions. Good on her! But she is incredibly dependent on others, particularly those with whom she is journeying; and her recounting of her travails does get a bit repetitive at times. (No spoilers). Much credit to her for her endeavours, though
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