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In the shadow of the mountain a memoir of courage

"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the a...

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Main Author: Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia.
Mountaineers > United States > Biography.
Women mountaineers > United States > Biography.
Hispanic American women > Biography.
Hispanic American sexual minorities > Biography.
Women in technology > United States.
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Chomolungma
  • Borron y cuenta nueva
  • Summit mittens
  • Sunday's prey
  • The high Himalayas
  • Lancaster 90210
  • Ridum
  • Top shelf
  • Nothing we do is small
  • Peruvian cowgirl with no past
  • Walking together
  • When things fall apart
  • Testosterone
  • The Great Wall
  • Kind if you let her
  • Los divorciados
  • The valley of silence
  • The death zone
  • At the top of the world.

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