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More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood Hardcover – March 7, 2023

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An intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage.

As one of the world’s leading female professional rock and ice climbers, Burhardt and her husband led globe-trotting, adventure-seeking lives. When she learns that she’s pregnant—with twins—Burhardt at first tries to justify her insistence on pursuing extreme risk in the face of responsibility. But she is ultimately forced to grieve the avalanche of emotions that accompanies any major life transitions along with the physical changes in her own body.

Based on the letters and journals Burhardt diligently kept over the course of those six years, More takes the reader on an around-the-world journey as Burhardt explores the transformative, identity-shifting experience of motherhood and its irreversible impact on career, identity, marriage, and self.

In the early weeks of her children's lives, Burhardt immerses herself in adoration for her twins and grappling with the tremendous guilt and struggle around having to return to risk-laden work and that ever elusive balance mothers everywhere seek amidst it all.

As the newness of her twins fades into a permanent reality, Burhardt turns her attention towards her marriage and the collateral damage as she and her husband, Peter, struggle to navigate their new normal. As anger and resentment threaten the foundation of her family, Burhardt courageously looks to her past—and her own mother's tumultuous and confusing history of success, violence, and ragged divorce—to better understand her own way forward. How will she break free from the legacy of her own childhood to start fresh with her own family?

Raw, candid, and galvanizing, More is a passionate and poignant testament to the enduring power of love and our lifelong journey to understand ourselves as we strive to always pursue more.
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    1639363491
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"Burhardt's boldly candid memoir charts a path into a new territory in adventure writing, with motherhood as the ultimate journey." -- BookPage

"If you’re looking for the usual motherhood memoir, look somewhere else. But if you’re looking for a raw memoir about the tensions between motherhood and the shifts in one’s identity and not sure how you feel about it, this is your book." -- Book Riot

"Heartfelt, raw, and unflinchingly honest. If you’re looking for something that speaks to your soul and gives you permission to dive headlong into whatever shape of a life you choose, More is the read you’re looking for." -- Climbing Magazine

"More is riveting. Burhardt's writing is so raw and immediate that her journey through motherhood, marriage, climbing, and building a conservation organization is our journey, day by day and indeed hour by hour. It is full of joy, fear, frustration, passion, possibility, and the intensity of love -- a woman's story, but above all an enthralling and motivating human story. Highly recommended!" -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

"The fierce candor of Majka Burhardt's beautiful memoir is something to behold, for in More she’s got an audience to whom she cannot lie: the book is addressed to her twin children, and in the clarifying light of that testimony all of life is reconfigured. How to be a daughter, a mother, a wife, an elite climber, a breadwinner, a woman of keen intelligence tangled up but trying to stay true, a citizen of the world. In Burhardt's story we get the untold tale of all mothers, the sorrow of the unsaid, the grief that trails after it, the choices made. You might think a mountain guide and world-class climber would be all bravado, but the model of courage in this memoir isn’t found in feats of daring, but down the aisle of a grocery store, or on the side of the road, where a woman cries in a minivan, then decides on love and joy, on difficulty, on more, and drives home." -- Charles D'ambrosio, New York Times notable book of the year author of The Point

“A professional rock climber shares the challenges of maintaining her career after becoming a mother. In this epistolary memoir, Burhardt relays the emotional challenges of becoming a mother while attempting to retain a sense of her own identity. Raw, passionate, and stinging.” -- Kirkus Reviews

"In a series of journal entries spanning from her early pregnancy in 2015 through the first four-and-a-half years of motherhood, Burhardt describes with heartrending candor a dilemma many of us will face: How do you maintain a core identity while embracing all-encompassing life changes? Both adrenaline seekers and armchair enthusiasts will admire Burhardt’s raw honesty and marvel at her incredible achievements." -- Booklist

"More is an intimate, frank, first-person account of the abrupt transition to motherhood, in the middle of a life already full of incredible risk, beauty, and passion. Parenthood changes everything, and it’s fascinating to accompany Majka Burhardt as she negotiates this new route and finds a deeper sense of herself along the way." -- Chelsea Conaboy, author of Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

"Majka gives a heartfelt and honest account of the questions and inner dialogue so many people face with motherhood and what comes next. For anyone questioning the balance of adventure and parenthood and marriage, More is a book that offers a sincere look into how to unwrap the past, present and future." -- Beth Rodden, top American rock climber

About the Author

Majka Burhardt is a professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, author and filmmaker. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado and the author of Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa, which was short-listed for the Banff Book Award. Her work and projects have been featured in The Economist, Outside Magazine, The Weather Channel, NPR and more, and her articles have appeared in publications including Afar, Men’s Health, Skiing Magazine, Backpacker, Patagonia, Alpinist, Women’s Adventure, The Explorers Journal, and Climbing. Majka is a climber and ambassador with Patagonia, an American Mountain Guides Association Rock Guide and Ice Instructor. She graduated from Princeton University cum laude and received a MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She and her husband, Peter Doucette, an internationally certified (AMGA/IFMGA) mountain guide, live in Jackson, New Hampshire with their twin children.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pegasus Books (March 7, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1639363491
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1639363490
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
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Majka Burhardt is a professional climber, certified climbing guide, conservation entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker; she is also the founder and executive director of the international conservation and development organization Legado and the author of Vertical Ethiopia, which was short-listed in 2008 for the Banff Book Award. Her work and projects have been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Outside Magazine, The Weather Channel, NPR and more, and her articles have appeared in publications including Afar, Men’s Health, Skiing, Backpacker, Patagonia, Alpinist, Women’s Adventure, The Explorers Journal, and Climbing. Majka currently lives with her twins and her husband, the internationally certified mountain guide Peter Doucette, in Jackson, New Hampshire.

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Jeanna A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it! Talk about it! Share it! Parenthood and partnership in a nutshell
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2023
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Where to even start?? I can't imagine a better reflection the challenges and joys of becoming a mother. This is no doubt going to be my go to new parent gift, and truth be told I'm not sure if this story is something more important for new mothers or fathers to hear. Majka's courageously honest telling of her experience through pregnancy and the early weeks and years of parenthood had be often in tears or fits of laughter and felt in so many ways like a time capsule back to those days not so many years ago when I too fumbled through countless nights without sleep trying to figure out how anyone ever survived raising babies. The first person I gifted a copy to when I finished reading was my own mother who I see so much of the best and worst of myself mirrored from. Truly this is a read I think everyone will find puts light into much of the pain and frustration we often try to stuff away and keep moving through, that is so deserving of attention and conversation.
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Elizabeth R.
5.0 out of 5 stars I want more
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023
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I am utterly captivated. After listening to a podcast interview with the author the day the book came out, I immediately knew I needed to read it. That was Tuesday and now it’s Thursday and I’ve just finished the last pages while nursing my twins to sleep.
This is a raw, vulnerable account that resonated deeply with me because captured some of the terror and wonder at finding out you are pregnant with twins, while wanting to balance a career that you’ve worked so hard for and don’t know if that is possible.
I recommend it to new moms/parents, friends and family of new parents, and quite frankly, anyone who will stand still long enough to listen!
Thank you for writing this. I’m going to be thinking about the themes you have stirred a long time.
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Myriam Fentanes
4.0 out of 5 stars Honest insight into the obscure rabbit hole of motherhood
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2023
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The account of the contradictions that happen during the process of becoming a mother is spot on. You can relieve those moments and process them with Majka as a guide.
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Jacqueline M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Meaningful, Impactful, Poignant.
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023
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This book will get you through those insatiable physical and emotional demands of motherhood like no other. Be prepared to experience the full range of emotions with Majka- especially if you, too, are hormonal. I don’t know how we do it, I don’t k ow how Majka did it- but finally, here is a guide for getting through the toughest, darkest times of motherhood and adulthood and marriage when blended together in an especially sloppy mess. And here is a celebration of living it, and doing it better than we were shown. XO
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Kimberly James
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2023
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What a wonderful memoir of becoming a mother. The realness of this story makes it impossible not to connect with. Any mother at any stage of motherhood will appreciate this book. Even more so if you are a mother who craves adventure. Thank you for writing this book and sharing your story with the world.
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Matthew J. Zarif
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for any parent who loves the outdoors!
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023
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As a mama of three who tends to stay incredibly active with work and outdoor adventures, this book really hit home. It nurtured my soul in a way that I felt seen and understood. I could NOT put it down.
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Lauren Rigney
5.0 out of 5 stars The most I've felt seen as a mother since having my first child
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2023
It was almost eerie how many times I read a sentence and then thought to myself, "That's exactly how I felt" or "I wrote that same thing in my journal." This book made me feel less alone as a first time parent navigating this whole motherhood thing while feeling overwhelmed and torn in so many directions. I appreciate the honesty and candor of Majka. I am recommending this book to anyone who has a child, is considering having a child, or anyone who wants to build more empathy for those in their community with children
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5.0 out of 5 stars Intense! Majka is letting it all spill out.
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2023
A must for every Outdoor couple to read. Whether you have been a parent or considering it. You'll: relate, be sad, laugh, be awe struck, and be touched by Majka's raw account of birthing , and managing it all. (trying to not give away too much).
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A must for every Outdoor couple to read. Whether you have been a parent or considering it. You'll: relate, be sad, laugh, be awe struck, and be touched by Majka's raw account of birthing , and managing it all. (trying to not give away too much).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written book.. esp for mama's
Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2024
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What a beautiful written book. It captures the true essence of what it is to become a mum and what it feels like each step of the way.
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