This is the story of a couple, Catherine and Philip Stevenson, both dedicated mountain climbers and, as a couple, have climbed some of the world's most challenging peaks. All through their climbs, they have been blessed with luck and good fortune where others would perish. For their last mighty climb, Catherine determines that they climb Mount Everest and thus satisfy her dream of standing where Hillary stood. However, luck and good fortune have run out on Mount Everest for Catherine as she battles to save her husband dying in the Everest Graveyard where hundreds of climbers lay. This is a saga of showing that with even the most experienced of climbers, the forces of nature can combine to kill, leaving the survivors emotionally destroyed. This is one woman's saga of learning to live even after the greatest of tragedies.
In the world of adventure, one achievement stands out as the ultimate physical and emotional challenge: sailing non-stop alone around the world. This is the saga of two teenage girls who seek to do this, rounding Cape Horn, Sailing Everest, then challenging the mighty Southern Ocean.
One succeeds and one fails, but a more important event takes place while they are on their journeys. Initially rivals and strangers, they become friends over the radio and in a most exciting climax, one comes out to save the other from death by drowning in a storm-ravaged Indian Ocean. This is a saga of friendship and faith in the most unusual of circumstances.
Set not only on both girls’ yachts but also including the sponsors, support teams, media and the politicians who are involved, this is a saga of great adventure and great friendship.
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