Author Cheryl Suchors will discuss her book 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains. 

Floundering in her second career, forty-eight year old Cheryl Suchors resolves that, despite a fear of heights, she is going to hike the highest of the grueling White Mountains in New Hampshire. All forty-eight of them. She endures injuries, mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes ten years. Regardless of her need since childhood to feel successful and in control, climbing teaches her mastery isn’t enough and control is often an illusion.

More about Cheryl: Cheryl Suchors grew up in places across the US, and is a proud graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.  After getting an MBA from Harvard she had a successful career in management consulting, including becoming president of her own company.  Then she found the courage to launch her second career as a writer. She’s published short works and poems in addition to her book, 48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains.

Besides the White Mountains, Cheryl has hiked in California, Colorado, Maine, Montana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Utah, Virginia and Washington. She’s a member of the Four Thousand Footer Club, the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Sierra Club.

Cheryl lives in the Boston area with her husband and a plethora of plants. In their spare time they visit their daughter, travel, and engage in political activism.

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