{"id":2744,"date":"2012-12-13T03:05:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T03:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2013-02-12T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T02:16:45","slug":"story-telling-with-christine-and-sharon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/story-telling-with-christine-and-sharon\/","title":{"rendered":"Story-telling With Christine and Sharon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miguelitos<\/a><\/p>\n

Story-telling With Christine and Sharon<\/strong>
\nFeaturing Christine Wiesenthal and Sharon Wood
\nChristine:\u00a0 Writer, Academic
\nSharon: Climber, Mountain Guide, Public Speaker
\nDecember 13, 2012<\/p>\n

Christine is an award-winning\u00a0writer, editor and teacher at the University of Alberta<\/a> in\u00a0Edmonton. She has published books of literary criticism, poetry, biography and edited The Collected Works of Pat Lowther<\/em><\/a>. Her literary biography of Pat Lowther was shortlisted for the 2006 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction<\/a>. Christine prefers pedestrian modes of locomotion over automobiles, when possible — in cities, and especially as a mountain hiker.<\/p>\n

Sharon was the first North American woman to summit Mt. Everest<\/a>.\u00a0 Climbing it was a culmination of an odyssey that began at age twelve when her father took her up her first mountain. By the time she was seventeen she was devoting all her time to climbing. Her first break came in 1977 when she joined an all womens expedition to Mount Logan. She went on to climb Mt. Mckinley<\/a>, Makalu<\/a>, the south face of Aconcagua<\/a> and the northeast face of Huascaran Sur<\/a>.\u00a0 Her ascent of Mt. Everest<\/a> by the difficult west ridge and north face was first for a North American woman, but as her friend Albi Sole recalled, \u201cIt’s not because she was a woman that she got to the top, it’s because she was the right person for the job\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 After Everest she had moved on to other adventures. Much in demand as a public speaker, she travels North America sharing her experiences and her approach to risk. In 1988 she married and is now raising a family.\u00a0 In 1997 Sharon received the Summit of Excellence Award<\/a> at the Banff Mountain Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 Sharon has this to say about her motives:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe constants that I have strived to maintain through all of these things is \u2026the steep learning curve, the intensity, perhaps a certain degree of risk\u2026.and tremendous adventure\u2026and that ongoing, never ending quest for self knowledge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more about Sharon see http:\/\/www.sharonwood.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n[info]It bears repeating: Sharon was the first North American woman to summit Mt. Everest<\/a>.[\/info]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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