Susan chronicles her journey with an insightful, often humorous eye for not only her travels across Japan, but the culture, food, nature, and obstacles she encountered along the way, and complements her honest and vivid prose with breathtaking personal photographs. But when an unexpected cancer diagnosis forced her to confront her deepest fears, the mountains of Japan became the setting for an even more transformative journey from pain and fear to a new life fueled by hope, confidence, and strength.This immersive, inspiring, and witty page-turner captures the terrifying lows and breathtaking highs of a woman's journey from timidity to confidence, cancer to healing, and regret to joy, as she breaks the mental and physical chains that once prevented her from living out her dreams. Advances in equipment and technique have helped make the sport accessible to a wide variety of. After more than forty years of living 'safe and scared,' California attorney and mystery author Susan Spann decided to break free by climbing one hundred of Japan's most famous mountains, inspired by a classic list of hyakumeizan peaks. This immersive, inspiring, and witty page-turner captures the terrifying lows and breathtaking highs of a woman’s journey from timidity to confidence, cancer to healing, and regret to joy, as she breaks the mental and physical chains that once prevented her from living out her dreams. Ice climbing continues to grow more popular every year. When not writing, she enjoys photography, mountain climbing, and traveling across Japan.

The inspiring memoir of a middle-aged woman who challenged herself to climb one hundred Japanese mountains in a single year, even after an aggressive cancer threatened to derail her dream. Susan Spann is the 2015 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year and the author of six previous novels in the Shinobi Mystery series: Claws of the Cat, Blade of the Samurai, Flask of the Drunken Master, The Ninjas Daughter, Betrayal at. She currently lives in Tokyo, where she is working on the next Hiro Hattori novel and finishing the manuscript for her upcoming nonfiction debut, CLIMB: Leaving Safe & Finding Strength on 100 Summits in Japan (Prometheus Books, 2020).

Climb by Susan Spann