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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

16 reviews

mhbloss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Rape, Homophobia, Trafficking, and Alcoholism

Minor: Mental illness and Infidelity

msagerber's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Death, Vomit, Alcoholism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Mental illness, Racism, Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Grief, Homophobia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Car accident

There are probably more content warnings, but basically it is tough stuff! That being said, I am changed from reading this and so glad I pushed through, it is so incredibly powerful.

hannahgiven's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

theamandablanco's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Addiction, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Trafficking, Vomit, Classism, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, and Sexual content

196books's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Suicide, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Rape

Minor: Sexism

mjvanhusen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Addiction

Minor: Suicide attempt

mjscooke's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

In this memoir Silvia Vasquez-Lavado weaves the tail of her expedition to climb My. Everest as a backdrop to exploring the other challenges in her life and her journey to healing and self-confidence. Much like climbing mountains her story is both challenging, adventurous and at times quite dark whilst also being inspiring & hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Drug use

mariakureads's review

adventurous emotional slow-paced

3.0

I came into this book hoping to listen to what drove the author to make this journey to Mount Everest.
What I didn't expect was so much of her private life to be woven into that drive as I was hoping, thanks to the blurb, to read more about the climb itself - teh adventure of getting to the summit, the risks, the people involved, the climb itself.

What I got has a non-linear memoir that had more to do with her family, the abuse at a hands of a family friend that she was gaslight to believe was the start of a life with him, the supression of that and eventually her sexuality, her alcoholism, and the dangers of it, which she ties into different parts of climbing.

I appreciate what the author did and how this narrative was written, for it's well done, but it's also more than I expected for what I wanted to hear. It's well written and I can see the praise of it but I was hoping for more of her talking about the Everest climb itself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

shannonigans322's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

To no one's surprise, I read another Mt. Everest memoir. This one is so much more than that. Yes, Silvia was the first woman from Peru to climb Everest, as well as many others of the Seven Summits. Her storytelling, however, goes beyond mountaineering to explore childhood, trauma, family dynamics, a belated coming of age, and more. I highly recommend this, even if you aren't an armchair adrenaline junkie like me. (CW for SA, alcoholism, and general themes of peril)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

allthebooks36's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking, Alcoholism, Suicide, Cancer, Domestic abuse, and Rape