SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

by Jenny Tough
SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

by Jenny Tough

Hardcover

$19.99 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery

Jenny Tough is an endurance athlete who's best known for running and cycling in some of world's most challenging events - achieving accolades that are an inspiration to outdoor adventurers everywhere. But SOLO tells the story of a much more personal project: Jenny's quest to come to terms with feelings and emotions that were holding her back. Like runners at any level, she knew already that running made her feel better, and like so many of us, she knew that completing goals independently was empowering, too. So she set herself an audacious objective: to run - solo, unsupported, on her own - across mountain ranges on six continents, starting with one of the most remote locations on Earth in Kyrgystan. 

SOLO chronicles Jenny's journey every step of the way across the Tien Shaw (Asia), the High Atlas (Africa), the Cordillera Oriental (South America), the Southern Alps (Oceania), the Canadian Rockies (North America) and the Transylvanian Alps (Europe), as she learns lessons in self-esteem, resilience, bravery and so much more. 

What Jenny's story tells us most of all is that setting out to do things solo - whether the ambitious or the everyday - can be invigorating, encouraging and joyful. And her call to action to find strength, confidence and self-belief in everything we do will inspire and motivate.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783254705
Publisher: Octopus Books
Publication date: 09/06/2022
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 1,136,570
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Jenny Tough is an adventure traveller originally from Canada. She enjoys writing about her solo mountain expeditions and tales of world travel as a solo female. Jenny has been featured by National Geographic, BBC Scotland, Women's Running, The Great Outdoors and more. In 2020 she edited Tough Women Adventure Stories, published by Summersdale. When she's not exploring the mountains of the world, she lives in Scotland, and occasionally wherever she parks her adventure van.

Instagram.com/jennytough
Youtube.com/channel/UCz19OCvmBVPT9m5kIm6hbYA
Twitter.com/jennytough
Facebook.com/jenniferjtough

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Chapter 1 Starting Out: The Tien Shan 1

Chapter 2 That Made It a Thing: The Atlas Mountains 67

Chapter 3 Aren't You Afraid? The Bolivian Andes 153

Chapter 4 Doing It My Way: The Southern Alps 221

Chapter 5 Where Are You From? The Canadian Rockies 271

Chapter 6 Being Brave: The Transylvanian Alps 335

Afterword 364

Acknowledgements 369

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews