Tap Dancing on Everest

Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part gripping adventure, is a true-survival story of a young medical student who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet. The team attempts a new route up the East Face without the use of supplemental oxygen, Sherpa support, or chance for rescue. When three climbers disappear during their summit attempt, Zieman reaches the knife-edge of her limits and digs deeply to fight for the climbers’ lives and to find her voice. Weaving her childhood as the daughter of immigrants raised in N.Y.C. with a reverence for nature, Zieman captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe as she ventures into the unknown.