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Her grand adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail, Jean faces death from a mountaineering accident on Mount Whitney. Broken and bleeding on the highest peak in the continental United States, she vows to realize her greatest dreams if she lives until morning. Her escape from the Sierra Nevada Mountains turns into a five-day ordeal for survival. Jean's recovery is equally daunting. Her journey spans three decades and takes her from the depths of despair and chronic pain to the heights of the Himalayas. When the specter of Mount Whitney continues to shatter her world, Jean befriends Tibetan lamas. Their ancient wisdom guides her on a path beyond her wildest dreams.
Read If I Live Until Morning A True Story of Adventure Tragedy and Transformation Jean Muenchrath 9780692955819 Books
"When the title of the book you are about to open is, If I Live Until Morning, there is no place for a preemptive spoiler alert. This book will be a tale of life threatening circumstances and the author will somehow survive. The opening shriek of "More morphine," belies Jean Muenchrath's quiet, understated rendering of her ski adventure turned horribly tramatic and ultimately life changing. A well prepared long distance ski trip over more than 200 miles on the John Muir Trail from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt Whitney was a multi-week adventure. It ends with shattering fall and injuries that leave her with the very real fear that for Jean Muenchrath there may be no more mornings.
Today, many who venture into the wilderness take personal locator beacons, cell or sat phones with apps that offer a safety net to speed rescue and helicopters to those in peril. The key to understanding how desperate the situation was for Jean and her ski partner, it is important to know the year was 1982, long before such devices were standard backcountry gear. The deep well of personal strength was all they had.
This is a truly compelling read. For background, read High Odyssey, by Gene Rose. This is the account of Orlando Bartholomew's epic 1928-29 ski journey on the sierra crest that inspired Jean's trek. High Odyssey is out of print, but available on Amazon, and well worth the effort to find as an inspiring companion read."
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If I Live Until Morning A True Story of Adventure Tragedy and Transformation Jean Muenchrath 9780692955819 Books Reviews :
If I Live Until Morning A True Story of Adventure Tragedy and Transformation Jean Muenchrath 9780692955819 Books Reviews
- I like to have a book on hand when commenting but right after I finished If I Live Until Morning, it was grabbed by my husband, and then by a friend, who subsequently loaned it to another friend. So, my copy is out floating through the universe which I take as a sign of its general worthiness.
I read widely including the occasional adventure story, as this one was. I also have an interest in Buddhism, and this book had that too. Of the two strands, I found the ski adventure in the Sierra Nevada and its aftermath to be the most compelling. Ms. Muenchrath provides an engrossing account of her life-threatening backcountry ski accident. I liked her straightforward writing. She presents an unembellished picture of the agony she endured and goes on to share how the incident impacted her life.
Self-knowledge and persistence have been key to Ms. Muenchrath’s recovery and Buddhism has also been a part of that healing. Additional supporting story lines in the book cover Asian travel, including time spent as a trip leader, and her various meetings with meditation teachers.
I found this book caused me to reflect on my own youthful adventures and mis-adventures and how they have affected my life. I too have lived with an injury I sustained in my twenties, though not nearly as severe as that experienced by the author.
At the ripe old age of sixty-five, I would tell any twenty-year-old setting off on an outdoor trip, fueled by youthful exuberance, not to underestimate the impact a small mistake, or moment of fatigue, might have on your life. Weigh carefully heading out without the right equipment or without the right partner. Learn all you can through talking with others and reading adventure storie, such as this one, about how trips sometimes go wrong and use that knowledge to prepare for the unexpected.
Despite those cautions, this book will inspire its readers to take adventures both inner and outer. I hope my copy returns to me so I can read it again! - Experiences shape our lives and give them meaning. Indeed, they define us. Jean Muenchrath's book relates her decades-long odyssey from catastrophic injury to despair to enlightenment. Reading it reminded me of a sentiment expressed by Theodore Roosevelt in an essay he wrote following the death of his son Quentin in aerial combat over France in 1918.
"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure."
It is evident that Jean has embraced and overcome many challenges and, in the process, has found the joy of life as well. - I just finished this amazing book and was swept in by the beauty of a life so fully alive. As an adventurer the author has skied and trekked to some of the highest and most beautiful mountains in the world as well as traveled solo throughout Asia. Her descriptions of rugged mountains, glaciers and snow, bustling Asian cities, and Buddhist monasteries are lush and transport you there. But the book is so much more than a high adventure story. A nearly fatal mountaineering accident early on becomes a catalyst for the author to pursue her greatest dreams. It isn't a straightforward journey though - persistent setbacks from her injuries, loss of loved ones and opportunities, a failed relationship - test her resolve and inner strength, leading her to ponder life's deeper questions, and set her on a path toward her life's greatest adventure. This is a story of hope and self discovery, told with grace, vulnerability and honesty.
- When the title of the book you are about to open is, If I Live Until Morning, there is no place for a preemptive spoiler alert. This book will be a tale of life threatening circumstances and the author will somehow survive. The opening shriek of "More morphine," belies Jean Muenchrath's quiet, understated rendering of her ski adventure turned horribly tramatic and ultimately life changing. A well prepared long distance ski trip over more than 200 miles on the John Muir Trail from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt Whitney was a multi-week adventure. It ends with shattering fall and injuries that leave her with the very real fear that for Jean Muenchrath there may be no more mornings.
Today, many who venture into the wilderness take personal locator beacons, cell or sat phones with apps that offer a safety net to speed rescue and helicopters to those in peril. The key to understanding how desperate the situation was for Jean and her ski partner, it is important to know the year was 1982, long before such devices were standard backcountry gear. The deep well of personal strength was all they had.
This is a truly compelling read. For background, read High Odyssey, by Gene Rose. This is the account of Orlando Bartholomew's epic 1928-29 ski journey on the sierra crest that inspired Jean's trek. High Odyssey is out of print, but available on , and well worth the effort to find as an inspiring companion read. - Wow! This narrative touched me in so many ways and in so many hidden corridors of my own psyche. This book so opened up my yet unhealed emotions and feelings as I laughed, cried, screamed, and sobbed with the author on her journey to healing.
In 1956 as a child of 10, I was recovering from an unnecessary operation that followed a culmination of traumatic family events that shattered our entire family. This was my Mount Whitney event, that led me as an adult to seeking spiritual transcendence after recreating my childhood family through my 32-year marriage to a very dysfunctional family in an effort to heal. Emotional silence was required by both my primary and secondary families. However, reading this book has given me renewed impetus to review the talus of my Mount Whitney accident and look for the skis l left behind from my fall from grace. Thank you for sharing this excellent writing, Jean! May everyone benefit who reads this!!!
