End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood

"Jan Redford is a bad–ass. She is also a born storyteller." —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger



In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future.

As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men.

Redford finally finds the love of her life, a...