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Forget Me Not: A Memoir ReviewJennifer Lowe-Anker is a very good writer and her late husband Alex was probably even more gifted with words. I found the story very sad and depressing. Alex never put his wife or children first in his life. His life was all about Alex and where he wanted to go and what he wanted to climb. He didn't care if he missed birthdays, anniversaries or holidays. He didn't care if he made Jenni move away from her beloved, dying grandmother. He probably needed that attitude in order to survive as long as he did taking huge risks in an extreme sport. That Jenni chose him for her partner was her choice but I felt really badly for their children. In the forward, Jon Krakauer wrote that Alex loved his family unconditionally. Not true. He loved them to not make any demands on him. Jenni wrote that he was unpleasant when he could not have his way and get away. She put up with a lot and excused even more. She even acknowledged that some other climbers found him to be a prima donna. I think she found it easy to fall in love with another man just months after the death of Alex because she never felt really bound to him.
I also found it sad to discover that because climbers from industrialized nations have the time and money for this expensive, dangerous sport, that they employ native Sherpas and Tibetans as their guides and carriers putting them at huge risk. For these impoverished people, how could they not be tempted by the money? I have since found that the death and injury rate among these native people is even higher than for the climbers who employ them. More selfishness.
So, although the book was very well written, I guess I am the oddball who was not enthralled by Alex Lowe. He regularly risked his life, his sons' father, for no other purpose than to feel like he was on top of the world. To me, a man is a hero when he puts his family and not himself first.Forget Me Not: A Memoir Overview

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