“Mom?”UNDERWRITTEN BY Each week, The Colorado Sun and Colorado Humanities & Center For The Book feature an excerpt from a Colorado book and an interview with the author. Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | RSSGrowing up as a kid just outside St. Louis, I suffered hundreds of asthma attacks. In an asthma attack, I’m struggling to fill my lungs, raising my shoulders to my ears, extending my arms—anything to expand the chest cavity. On that climb was a man who had also been afflicted with asthma as a child. Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest (and later, the first CEO of the outdoor-retail giant REI).

Source: Daily Sun May 26, 2024 08:28 UTC