Forget Me Not: A Memoir

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i was saddened she didn't mention Alex in her acknowledgements although I suppose their love was apparent.

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a book review, generally I find the process unsatisfying, like writing a term paper in college. I really wanted to give this book 4 stars, but I just couldn't learn to care much for Alex although I appreciated what the author has tried to do and what she herself has been through. This book is in some ways a great counterbalance to the hard-hitting, snow-blustering, life-on-the-edge titles that make up the mountaineering/adventuring literary genre - or at least, the impression the reading public (and corporate public, who just loves a good alpine analogy for success) gets of the industry and genre. Having suddenly lost her husband, Alex Lowe, in a tragic mountaineering accident, Jennifer Lowe struggled to hold her family together and deal with her grief. after losing my own love to a climb two yrs ago I decided to read this to work through some feelings and it delivered.

They travelled the world together, visiting various climbing locales in the United States and abroad. From the reviews -- and even, if taken out of context, a sentence or two in Krakauer's forward -- I had to assume this was some sort of angry or at least pitiable self portrait of a woman abandoned in life and death by her selfish climber husband. I was relieved to read about the love she found with her current husband, Conrad Anker, and the love they share as a family with Max, Sam and Isaac. I'm glad I read this book, not just for its lovely writing and thoughtful narrative, but also for the quiet memory of its resilience.

I read this book around the time I watched Free Solo and Meru, as well as read Into Thin Air and Conrad Anker's The Lost Explorer.As I went to go post this review, I was absolutely floored by some of the comments from other reviewers, stating they did not enjoy this masterpiece because they believed Alex's climbing was selfish and inconsiderate to his family, none the least, Jennifer.

Alex and Jennifer’s first days of love were probably somewhat similar to many climbing couples, yet vastly different than most young lovers. I also have issues with so many people spending such money, not just on climbing, but on seemingly using the Sherpas to further their sport. If you have read Into Thin Air, then this is probably a book you will like although I liked that book but not this one as much because of the characters. Her work has been shown alongside well-known western artists such as Thom Ross, Howard Post, Larry Pirnie and Donna Howell-Sickles.

She is a serious climber herself (or was; as she states, parenthood increased her drive for self preservation), and she conveys clearly the concepts necessary to understand the climbing stories she relays.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Alex Lowe death was caused by an Avalanche, a dream that his wife Jen had had a day before the trip. While it is absolutely tragic that Alex died so young, he was doing one of the two thing on earth that he loved the most. her Alex and my Jared are cut from the same cloth and perhaps are climbing together in the afterlife.Jenni's detailed recollections are beautiful, the letters she kept from herself and Alex are wonderful, and her open and honest reflection of living a life with a partner who was at times unbearably moody and at times so thoughtful and passionate was stunning. In moving in with Jennifer, as a father figure who had survived the avalanche that killed the boy's father, Conrad would be shouldering the responsibility of a lifetime.