Three decades after historic triumph on Mount Everest, Canmore`s Sharon Wood comes to terms with conflicting feelings about the climb in new memoir
(WorldNews Entertainment)

It’s not unusual for an author to describe the process of writing a book as exhausting. But the statement seems to take on a bit more gravity when it comes from Sharon Wood. The Canmore-based mountain guide and speaker is known for being the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest. Thirty-three years after that 1986 adventure, Rising: How a Canadian Became the First North American Woman to Summit Everest, will be released by Douglas & McIntyre detailing her experiences. “I discovered that writing is really, really, really hard,� says Wood, in an interview from her home in Canmore. “I’m not sure I want to work that hard anymore.�...