She Was the First American Woman to Summit Everest Without Oxygen. But Her New Book “Is Not About Everest.”

“This book is probably not what you might expect it to be,” says Melissa Arnot Reid of her new memoir Enough. Reid is the first American woman to summit Everest—and survive the descent—without supplemental oxygen.

For one, she emphasizes that her book is not just another contribution to the Everest canon. In fact, until the last minute, the book’s title was actually This Is Not a Book About Everest. She wanted readers to receive this disclaimer upfront, so they wouldn’t be “wildly disappointed.”

Instead...