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Forget Me Not: A Memoir
Winner:National Outdoor Book Awards -Outdoor Literature Fic (2008)
* A personal account of one of the greatest losses in the climbing world
* An elegant and gripping story of tragedy, as well as unexpected joy
* An entrée into the emotional world of climbers and their families
* Benefits the Nepal-based Khumbu Climbing School
In 1999 Jennifer Lowe's husband Alex Lowe died tragically in an avalanche on the Himalayan mountain Shishapangma, leaving her alone to raise three sons. Alex was widely considered one of the greatest modern climbers and the world mourned his loss -- Tom Brokaw did a one-hour special for Dateline, and Sting narrated and composed music for a tribute film.
While Jenni and her sons faced the absence of the most important man in their lives, Alex's best friend and longtime climbing partner, Conrad Anker, was dealing with the terrible loss as well as feelings of survivor's guilt. Jenni and Conrad gradually, and unexpectedly, found solace in one another and married in 2001 -- Conrad is now the adoptive father of the three Lowe children.
Through letters and expedition notes from Alex, Forget Me Not spans continents and tells the story of three people whose lives intertwine to a degree they could never have imagined. Jenni's account takes readers inside a woman's heart and mind as she navigates her shattered life and survives, ultimately finding transformative love through her great loss. From the valleys of Montana to the peaks of the Himalayas, this never-before told story exposes the controversial yet ultimately redemptive power of love.
Book Details
- Publisher: Mountaineers Books
- Publish Date: Apr 15th, 2008
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.76in - 5.80in - 1.13in - 1.13lb
- EAN: 9781594850820
- Categories: • Sports• Mountaineering• Memoirs
About the Author
Krakauer, Jon: - JON KRAKAUER is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction booksInto the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillmanas well as numerous magazine articles.
Lowe-Anker, Jennifer: - JENNIFER LOWE is
a successful visual artist and the founder of the Khumbu Climbing Center in
Nepal, now part of the Juniper Fund (https: //www.thejuniperfund.org).
Born in Missoula, Jennifer spent parts of her childhood working
in the fields of her grandparent's homesteaded property in Montana's
Grasshopper Valley. Lowe's paintings are rendered in the vivid color and rich
texture of livestock markers and capture the whimsical images from her
imagination and the memories of her Montana upbringing.
Lowe constructs her own frames and decorates them with a
folk-art quality--each of which carries an element of the painting that it is
made for--giving her finished work a unique character. Lowe's work has been
featured in 22 shows throughout the West, shown alongside such well-known
Western artists as Thom Ross, Howard Post, Larry Pirnie, and Donna Howell
Sickels. Her works' appeal has landed it in private collections of such
luminaries as Peter Fonda, Michael Keaton, Jeff Bridges, and Jerry Spence, as well
as in the corporate collections of Patagonia and Chronicle Books.
She lives in Bozeman, Montana.
a successful visual artist and the founder of the Khumbu Climbing Center in
Nepal, now part of the Juniper Fund (https: //www.thejuniperfund.org).
Born in Missoula, Jennifer spent parts of her childhood working
in the fields of her grandparent's homesteaded property in Montana's
Grasshopper Valley. Lowe's paintings are rendered in the vivid color and rich
texture of livestock markers and capture the whimsical images from her
imagination and the memories of her Montana upbringing.
Lowe constructs her own frames and decorates them with a
folk-art quality--each of which carries an element of the painting that it is
made for--giving her finished work a unique character. Lowe's work has been
featured in 22 shows throughout the West, shown alongside such well-known
Western artists as Thom Ross, Howard Post, Larry Pirnie, and Donna Howell
Sickels. Her works' appeal has landed it in private collections of such
luminaries as Peter Fonda, Michael Keaton, Jeff Bridges, and Jerry Spence, as well
as in the corporate collections of Patagonia and Chronicle Books.
She lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Praise for this book
Forget me Not will stay with your forever. It is a beautifully written story of great love, great daring, great loss, and great recovery. Most of all, it is a story of great courage.--Tom Brokaw
Forget Me Not is a moving tribute, written with candor and grace, that warms the heart and inspires the soul long after the last page is turned.--Greg Mortenson "author of Three Cups of Tea"
"FORGET ME NOT, a painful, beautiful and truthful memoir...Jennifer Lowe-Anker is a fluid and expressive observer of substantive, named details in nature, the minute study of which she and Alex shared, and of their lives. The book is most revelatory."--Alison Osius "Rock & Ice Magazine"
"Partly a women's memoir and partly an exotic travel adventure story."-- "Publishers Weekly"
"Lowe-Anker said that a woman who had read an advanced copy of the book told her at a recent outdoor-retailer trade show that it was the most meaningful book she'd ever read. Having lost a climbing partner herself, the woman said, the book gave her hope."-- "Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle"
"A painful, beautiful and truthful memoir... Jennifer Lowe-Anker is a fluid and expressive observer of substantive, named details in nature, the minute study of which she and Alex shared, and of their lives. The book is most revelatory."-- "Rock and Ice Magazine"
"Honest memoir."-- "Outside Magazine"
"Given Alex Lowe's high profile as one of the world's best climbers, it stands to reason that several notable authors [are] qualified to recount his life and accomplishments in the first book following his tragic death below a massive avalanche on Shishapangma. But no one is more qualified than his widow, Jennifer Lowe-Anker... Jennifer delivers a candid glimpse into the life of a driving and complicated force otherwise known as Stewart Alexander Lowe."-- "Gripped Magazine"
"After reading Jennifer Lowe-Anker's memoir Forget Me Not, I now realize that - while others could describe individual puzzle pieces - she is the only one who truly knew how all those pieces fit together... what Jenni offers is a remarkably honest and unvarnished view of her life experiences with Alex. It is a tale of soaring achievements mixed with heartbreak and tragedy, played out on the wildest mountain ranges on the planet and in their Bozeman home... A beautifully written memoir."-- "The Bozeman Tributary"
"In 1999, her husband Alex Lowe, a renowned mountaineer, died during an avalanche on Shishapangma in the Himalayas, leaving her with three children. She used his letter and expedition notes to create this moving account of his life and how she dealt with her loss."-- "The Hartford Courant"
"A heartfelt memoir."-- "Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
"Forget Me Not is a sweet, honest, and heartfelt recount of Jenni's life... Jenni's words flow freely and truthfully, recounting both good and bad, pain and joy in her life with Alex. What is perhaps most poignant is her love of place, of Montana, of the wildflower fields of her youth, and of summer days spent with her grandmother in the land she loves. This is a story of true love, in many different regards."-- "Outside Bozeman"
"Jennifer Lowe-Anker, has written a well-received book about her life with Alex Lowe."-- "Billingsgazette.com"
"The 2008 memoir Forget Me Not has more epic, archetypal stuff flowing through it than a Greek classic, and yet it is a book of nonfiction that reads almost like a fable for modern living in villages like ours."-- "Jackson Hole News & Guide"
"Candid and remarkably well told, Forget Me Not is a story of adventure, passion, struggle, and hope. Most importantly, it is a story of love."--Bernadette McDonald "The Alpine Journal"