Kircher provides us with a beautiful memoir of her life, experiences, and the strength she used to get through it. Kircher’s story begins when the news of her husband’s liver condition called primary schlerosing cholangitis. So what is a devoted wife to do, but do whatever she can to save her husband, first by listening to his doctors and putting him on the donor’s list. Then she took her experiences and life among the ski slopes to survive and fight back. Kircher shows that we can take our own experiences and find courage in them. This memoir is a truly inspirational story and it’s one that I would recommend to anyone seeking inspiration in their own lives. Kircher tells us that we can do it. We can face the odds and win, all we have to do is look into ourselves. Ayone who has ever had to take care of someone during an illness will also relate and find comfort in this book.
The Next 15 Minutes Strength from the top of the mountain
Kim Kircher
Genre: Memoir
Book Blurb:
Kim Kircher’s husband’s illness wasn’t something she could blow up as she had done countless times on the ski slopes during avalanche control. Instead, Kim faced the biggest double black diamond ski run of her life as she listened to the doctors put her husband on the transplant list while he fought bile duct cancer.
The Next 15 Minutes is Kim’s high octane story of how she drew strength from her life among the ski slopes and of the daring world that showed her how to survive and fight back.
Kim Kircher has been an EMT with avalanche control at Crystal Mountain, Washington, for twenty years.