Follow My Footsteps: A Journey of Adventure, Disaster, and Redemption Inspired by the Plight of At-Risk Girls

by Sara Safari, Jeffrey Kottler

In Follow My Footsteps , Sara Safari and Jeffrey Kottler recount the thrilling tale of Sara’s climb to the top of Mount Everest for a bringing awareness to the plight of marginalized girls and victims of child sex trafficking around the world. As a young girl in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, Sara experienced firsthand the oppressive, restrictive environment that enables the sex-trafficking trade to thrive. She found herself with little personal freedom and few rights under the law, and she knew there had to be something better. As an adult, Sara wanted to empower children who’d been cast aside by society, so she set out on a journey fraught with obstacles and life-threatening peril. She’d never before understood the quest for the glory that came with standing atop the world. But what better way to show these young girls that they can do anything they put their minds to? Her own heartbreaking past makes the story of her determination all the more inspirational. The trials she faced changed her forever and helped her discover a strength she didn’t know she had.

232 pages, Paperback

Published May 25, 2016

Reviews

[Aida · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was gifted to me by one of the authors, Sara Safari, for my birthday not too long after the book was published. It’s taken me a few years to finally read it but once I started, I couldn’t not finish it. It did not inspire me to want to climb mountains but it sure did make me want to reevaluate the way I look at my own life and perhaps find my own proverbial “Everest”. I loved learning about the at-risk girls and what was being done to help them, as well as what the girls themselves were going to do with that assistance.

[JennanneJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I knew mountaineering was a dangerous sport - and it was amazing to hear the progress of a woman from never been on a hike to an Everest attempt. Sara's courage and determination were amazing! I found the look into what it takes to summit a peak quite interesting.

Also, Sara's passion for helping educate girls via Empower Nepadi Girls to be inspiring. I understand why the charity founder told his story in this book, but his chapters really seemed to break up the story a bit too much.

Overall, really interesting subject, but the writing was average.

[Poonam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspirational

If you need a window into how to find yourself through your passion you need to read this book. Well written

[Ash Jafari · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author takes us through the incredible journey she faced as a woman with no experience in mountaineering, to climbing the highest mountains in the world all too often dominated by men. In the process she develops resiliency, independence, courage, and so much more. That alone is very inspiring, let alone the author's main mission to help 300 girls she supports in Nepal. We see the juxtaposition of climbing the world's highest mountains with the continuous challenge of raising funds and support to help the girls.

The author and co-author share their fears, vulnerabilities, and triumphs climbing mountains and changing the world leaving the reader inspired and thought-provoked. I have recommended this book to a lot of my friends and hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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سارا سفری، جفری کاتلر - به دنبالِ ردِ پا - تهران: هستان 1396چاپِ اول
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