Author: Anna Magnusson

Publisher: Black & White Publishing

ISBN: 978184502171-9

Vicky Jack was into her forties before she began her record-breaking climb of the Seven Summits. With much persistence, through hard times and good, she emerged as the oldest British woman to climb Mount Everest and the first Scotswoman to complete the Seven Summits. Now with the help of Anna Magnusson, she has published her story.

Standing on top of the world’s highest mountain and smiling for the camera despite the freezing temperatures, Vicky Jack had done it. She had climbed to the top of Mount Everest despite failing her first attempt to reach the summit where she was only 300 feet away from accomplishing her dream.

You may ask when did Vicky first decide that she wanted to be a climber? Perhaps it was that present she received for her tenth birthday - a trapeze which her dad suspended from a silver birch tree in the back garden. Perhaps this was the thing that got her into sports and physical exercise. When she hit adulthood Vicky was very happy continuing doing physical activities from tennis to gardening. In fact she won a prize for gardening at the end of a year at her Prep School. She still remembers the children laughing when she went to collect it. A very funny thing indeed and now she has climbed and completed the Seven Summits.

In between climbing these peaks, Vicky insists some of the best times she had were visiting her mother who she loved so dearly. She was someone who never tired of hearing about her daughter’s adventures climbing the summits and was always ready to sit down and enjoy a coffee break to browse over Vicky’s photographs of her climbs. However there was always that air of secrecy to what exactly Vicky was doing and despite the strong bond they shared, Vicky would not talk about the more dangerous side-effects of climbing these mountains. It was something that they simply did not mention to one another.

Then one day Vicky’s mother is taken ill…

After losing her mother, Vicky still pushed on determined to pursue her dream and this time to reach the very top of the world if not for herself, for the memory of her Mum.

Climbing Aconcagua, the highest mountain in South America, was going to be tough for her but she was not going to give up. Gradually she built up her physical strength by pushing heavy weights on a special fitness machine designed for your legs. Guys were shocked when they saw how much Vicky was lifting, she says she quite enjoyed this attention!

The real question is how exactly did Vicky find all this inner strength, mental and of course the physical aspect too in order to achieve what she always dreamed of? This book gives us the inspiring tale of one woman and her great determination who despite climbing the Seven Summits, insists she’s still only a hillwalker.

A wonderful read with an anthology of vivid photographs, including the one of Vicky on the very top of Everest. I couldn’t put it down, it is one of those reads that motivates you from the first page till the last and stays in your mind long after you’ve finished.

The above review was contributed by: Jessica Roberts: Jessica has been a book reviewer for a newspaper and a national women's magazine and is working on a novel. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE 

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