{"product_id":"9781927330715","title":"Finding Jim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinding Jim\u003c\/i\u003e describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the world: skiing the Himalaya, rafting in Nepal and mountaineering in North America. In time, they got married, solidified a home for themselves in Whistler, British Columbia, and planned on starting a family. But the future Susan had imagined was not meant to be, and when Jim was killed in an avalanche in the University Range of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, she was faced with a loss greater than anything she ever could have expected.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAfter Jim’s death, Susan spent time retracing the adventures they took together, in a desperate and obsessive attempt to gather and hold on to as many memories of him as she could. She travelled to the place in Alaska where he lost his life; searched the Queen Charlotte Islands where they had first met; trekked to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro where they had journeyed the year before his death; and scoured the hills around their Whistler home for traces of the man she had expected to spend the rest of her life with.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of books like Joan Didion’s \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e and Maria Coffey’s \u003ci\u003eFragile Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Oakey-Baker writes eloquently of her efforts to relive and reanalyze her husband's death, to defy the pain that such a loss causes and embrace the healing power of mountains, adventure and wilderness as she reimagines her new life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocky Mountain Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132159115504,"sku":"9781927330715","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927330715_p0.jpg?v=1763636416","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927330715","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}