Tap Dancing on the East Face of Everest for Mimi Zieman

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The Everest 1988 Kangshung Face expedition is in the history books for good reason. A small team of four climbers attempted a new route without the use of supplemental oxygen or Sherpa support on the most remote side of the mountain, successfully summitted only once before. Join us to hear what the experience was like—with photographs— for Dr. Mimi Zieman, whose new book, Tap Dancing on Everest, was selected as Best Memoir of 2024 by the American Writing Awards.

Part coming-of-age memoir, part adventure story, Tap Dancing on Everest is about a young medical student raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a

remote Everest climb in Tibet, capturing the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down the messages to stay small and safe, and ventures into the unknown.

“Mimi Zieman’s book appears at an exciting time in mountain literature when women and other underrepresented writers are increasingly transforming the genre, overturning old formulas and stereotypes and featuring tales of experiences that have long been left out of dominant narratives,” says Katie Ives, former editor-in-chief of Alpinist and author of “Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams.”

Book signing will follow.

Mimi Zieman MD is a physician, writer, mother, and reproductive rights advocate with an award-winning memoir, Tap Dancing on Everest, about the risks we take to become our truest selves. Her play, The Post-Roe Monologues, has been performed in multiple cities, her medical guide, Managing Contraception, is in its 17th edition, and other writing has appeared in USA Today,  Newsweek,  SalonThe Sun Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The Forward, NBC News THINK, and elsewhere. Learn more at https://www.mimiziemanmd.com/

This program was organized by Vivian Callahan #1251.