"I don't get it."īut as she listened to her co-worker's stories and saw his videos of early Everest expedition footage, something shifted for Rideout. "I don't like the cold, I don't love physical exertion, I don't like being physically uncomfortable, and here's people going halfway around the world to climb this ridiculous mountain in the most insane conditions possible," she says.
As the basis for a connection, it wasn't promising. I had barely camped," she recalls.īetween pushing Gor-tex and stacking climbing gear, Rideout met a co-worker who was fascinated with the world's rooftop. "God knows why they hired me because I didn't know anything about anything. MUCH like a virus, an obsession can be contagious.īefore Tanis Rideout had penned her collection of superhero poetry or written her dramatic chronicle of George Mallory's 1924 ascent of Everest, she was working at a camping store in Kingston, Ont. For more information on weekend events visit. tonight at the North Shore Writers Festival, Lynn Valley Public Library, free admission. An Adventure Story of the Modern Age: Author Talk with Tanis Rideout at 7 p.m.
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