Mountain to Mountain, Shannon Galpin
Mountain to Mountain, Shannon Galpin
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Mountain to Mountain
A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan

Author: Shannon Galpin

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/16/2014

Synopsis

Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some, it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a nonprofit, and committing her life to advancing education and opportunity for women and girls. Focusing on the war-torn country of Afghanistan, Galpin and her organization, Mountain2Mountain, have touched the lives of hundreds of men, women, and children.

In her lyrical and honest memoir, Galpin describes her first forays into fundraising, her deep desire to help women and girls halfway across the world, and her love for adventure and sports. During her numerous trips to Afghanistan, Shannon reaches out to politicians and journalists, as well as everyday Afghans, to cross a cultural divide and find common ground. She narrates harrowing encounters, exhilarating bike rides, humorous episodes, and the heartbreak inherent in a country that is still recovering from decades of war and occupation.

About Shannon Galpin

Shannon Galpin is the founder and president of Mountain2Mountain, a nonprofit organization focused on helping women and children in Afghanistan. Her humanitarian efforts have been profiled on Dateline NBC and CNN and in the New York Times, USA Today, and Outside Magazine. Her first TEDx talk, held in 2012, was on the Power of Voice, which best illustrates the thread that links all of her work together. Shannon is the subject of the award-winning documentary film MoveShake, which screened at film festivals throughout 2012 and 2013, and she is working as the producer for an upcoming documentary about the Afghan National Women's Cycling Team. Shannon lives in Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beena on April 26, 2015

I like how rich in detailed this book is about Afghanistan. I love reading cross cultural books and memoirs, this was a book I enjoyed from beginning to end. The writer Shannon shows a different insight into the lives of Afghanistan and Afghan women. I honestly had not heard of women in Afghanistan......more

Goodreads review by Heba on May 25, 2017

I finished the book only because I wanted to know more about the Afghans and their daily life from the author's point of view, but I didn't like the level of details she used to describe everything, I found it boring and sometimes distracting. Also I didn't like the order of the chapters, expected a......more

Goodreads review by Emily on June 05, 2018

Shannon’s story was a refreshing change in perspective. Her vantage point t as an “other”, a woman bit a foreigner allowed her access to a viewpoint of the Middle East few get to see. Throw in a bike, schools, and women’s rights and you have an inspiring memoir.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 26, 2015

Thought I'd like it more, got really slow & turned into a story of personal aggrandizement & I finally couldn't keep slogging away anymore.......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on March 01, 2015

Although Ms.Galphin's experiences in Afghanistan are covered, this book is more a story of her finding her way past a life crisis to a meaningful life. Also, I expected more pictures.......more

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