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The Glastonbury Company presents

Book Excerpt: “On Aspiring: Journey Beyond Courage”

We hope that you enjoy reading this book. It was written to help people like you overcome challenges and find yourself, by sharing how the author, Wendy Campbell, overcame some of the big challenges in her life and along the way, discovered herself.

Here is an excerpt from her book for you to enjoy:

The mountainside disappeared vertically below me. Wind and clouds whipped and whirled about me, pulling me towards them, tugging at the rope that tethered me.

All those dreams of being here, all those hours of breathless training, all those times when I’d pushed myself to do what I thought I could never do as we’d climbed ever-upward — they were all behind me now. My wish to be part of the summit of Mount Aspiring drew me forward.

A knife edge bit into my gut, leaving searing pain in its wake.

Which way should I go?

My skin burned as if in a fever despite the wind’s chill.

Who would I find, when I got to the top?

Tears stung my eyes before the wind blew them away.

Would that dark weakness inside, that had always surfaced at the hardest times, that had held me in its thrall all my life, finally overcome me?

Here where there was no hiding place?

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