Stones and Feathers

Kate Ballard is a daughter of the mountains. As the child of world-renowned mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, the first female to solo climb Everest who was tragically lost on K2 when Kate was only four, she knows better than most the risks – and the rewards – of pursuing the almost-unattainable.
This is a book about the highs and lows of a life lived through extreme sports . The beauty and the bliss, the fulfilment and the agony. It is about a family choosing a way of life outside the everyday. ?About living under the legacy of not one but two extraordinary mountaineers, and the pain of carrying on without them.