Part I: The Versailles -- Feet first -- Immersion -- Freedom tinged with terror -- Tibet calls -- Part II: Vastness -- The land of truth -- Dreaming under the plume -- A Himalayan rave -- Part III: Returning -- Breathe in slowly: one, two, three, four -- Climb high, sleep low -- Labor & delivery -- Part IV: To surrender -- Team members of the Everest '88 Kangshung face expedition -- The launch -- The yaks are right behind you -- How to ride an avalanche -- Kangshung life -- Nothing out of the ordinary -- Lost in the sky -- Mind over mountain

"A memoir of Mimi Zieman's unlikely journey from an upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in 1970s New York City as the daughter of immigrants to an audacious and historic Everest expedition in 1988"--