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At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of Mount Everest, she felt ravaged by defeat. Driven by a relentless, lifelong quest to prove to herself, her family, and the world that she was enough, she had set herself an incredible goal—to become the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. The failure battered her spirit and left her struggling to keep her tenuous grip on hope.
In the candid and adventurous spirit of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, Enough is a story of a life in which the most dangerous mountain faces became a refuge—until suddenly they, too, no longer seemed safe. From a childhood marked by conflict, betrayal, and predation, Reid propelled herself to the top of the mountain climbing world, summiting and guiding on the world’s most challenging peaks and establishing herself as a woman unafraid to throw elbows in a milieu dominated by men. And yet for every summit she reached, her valleys of inner turmoil—over her estrangement with the family she believed she’d destroyed as a child; over relationships that cycled through deception and infidelity—grew deeper and more self-destructive. Eventually, she could not keep these worlds from colliding, especially after a series of tragedies at dangerous elevations took the lives of her mentors and friends. Forced at last to face herself, Reid made her most perilous climb yet—toward the uncertain promise of forgiveness and self-acceptance.
A beautiful, aching memoir of a journey with life-and-death stakes on the mountain and off, Enough bares the soul of one of the world’s greatest climbers, from the rarified heights visible only at thin-air altitudes to the dark depths home to demons familiar to anyone who has struggled to find compassion for themselves.
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Kirkus
February 15, 2025
A trailblazing female mountaineer examines the interior work behind the scenes of her success and notoriety. In 2016, Arnot Reid became the first American woman to successfully summit and descend Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen. It was her sixth summit of the mountain, with three additional attempts over the preceding eight years; that no other American woman beat her to that milestone over the years of her attempts demonstrates the author's singularity. More than 25,000 feet above sea level is not an obvious place to confront a sense of failure. Yet in the opening chapter of her memoir, Arnot Reid discloses the pervasive self-doubt that has shadowed her accomplishments. Over the course of her text, she returns to feelings of insecurity and envy, rooted in childhood pain and exacerbated by the rarity of being a female climber and guide. Tales of physical discomfort and interior drive yield space to the psychological obstacles that the author works to overcome; even the idea to attempt to summit Everest without oxygen comes almost from left field, and some of her inspirational feats are relegated to her footnotes. The details of Arnot Reid's restlessness remain fuzzy; she communicates the weight of her desperation without fully explaining it, and the string of romantic relationships that anchor the narrative for Arnot Reid's interior journey serve not only to obscure her excellence and dedication, but also to undermine her insistence on distinguishing her climbing success from her romantic entanglements. But as she sketches the shape of a void between who she is and who she longs to be, one cannot help but cheer her on in crossing that divide in fits and starts and wrestling repeatedly with the idea of where--and to whom--she belongs. An endearing memoir about how to seize hard-fought freedom to become the best version of yourself.COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Booklist
March 1, 2025
After a childhood filled with abuse and trauma, Reid spent years striving for perfection. She left home at 17 and fell in love with climbing, a sport dominated by men--men who struggled to take her seriously. She became a respected guide and earned the opportunity to climb with some of the sport's most accomplished athletes. All the while, she was engaging in self-destructive behavior, jumping from relationship to relationship, and pushing herself to her emotional and physical limits. She needed to prove to the world, her family, and herself that she could do something that no other American woman had ever done: summit Mount Everest without using oxygen. Reid writes with vulnerability, unafraid to take ownership for mistakes she's made. She's also honest about how the climbing world treats women. There are achingly sad moments, like when she loses a fellow climber, as well as moments of joy and triumph. This remarkable story will make readers feel like they are climbing Everest right next to Reid.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Publisher's Weekly
February 24, 2025
Reid, who in 2016 became the first American woman to summit and descend Mt. Everest without supplemental oxygen debuts with a spirited account of her climbing career. After weathering a troubled childhood in Montana, Reid fled to Iowa with her boyfriend when she was 17. There, a coworker introduced her to mountaineering, for which she displayed an immediate knack. As Reid catalogs a string of failed relationships, an abortion at age 22, and her struggles against misogyny in the climbing world, she writes rapturously of the control she felt on the mountain. A failed attempt to climb Everest without oxygen in 2010, plus the death of a sherpa on a different climb in the same year, formed a pivotal point in Reid’s life and climbing career, forcing her to disentangle her relationship with mountaineering from her desires for excellence and admiration. The final section charts Reid’s healing—she cofounded the Juniper Fund, an organization to support families of sherpas who have died in the field, successfully summited Everest without oxygen, and started a family, reveling in the pleasures of marriage and motherhood. This is exhilarating. Agent: Liz Parker, Verve Talent & Literary.
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