Five books the first woman to climb the Seven Summits couldn’t live without: Annabelle Bond’s must-reads for a desert island
Bond’s list includes a book about a mountaineering tragedy that her friends thought she was mad to read before scaling Everest and the story behind one of the world’s biggest sporting brands
Annabelle Bond earned the title “fastest female climber in the world” in 2005 after scaling the highest peaks on all seven continents in 360 days.
She started by reaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 15, 2004, becoming the fourth British woman to stand on top of the world. She went on to climb the six other mountains that comprise the Seven Summits in less than a year, making her the only woman at the time to have achieved that feat. Her record stood for eight years before being broken.
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She has a daughter, Isabella, and recently got engaged to her boyfriend, Ken Hitchner.
Here are the five books she would take to a desert island, in her own words.
Into Thin Air
