Bo Parfet Comes Face To Face With His Limitations
Bo Parfet, at the young age of 26, set out to accomplish a feat that very few have done. The investment banker, in 2003, made the arrangements to climb his first major mountain. He was not a professional climber, nor was he in the best shape, which did not stop him from facing all of his limitations. Within a short four years, he scaled all the major mountains. He wrote a book called Die Trying which is a memoir of his experience.
In the book, Parfet reflects on how he needed to come face to face with his limitations and overcome them. Parfet takes us with him when he needed to dodge avalanches and how he felt while making his way over a ladder over a bottomless crevasse. We get a look into Parfets’s feelings while burying a teammate at 27,000 feet. We get to experience the climbs and how exhilarating Parfet feels, and we get to experience the terrifying times. While Bo Parfet takes us on this journey, we learn what it was like for him face to face with corrupt military officials, tribesmen, and more. Before our eyes, we see how Parfet becomes more self-aware while eating rats and fired bats as a way of survival and facing the possibility of death when he fell into a crevasse while climbing Mt Cook. Through the book, we get to witness Parfets’s vision and how he too struggles through normal human feelings.