Kathmandu, Oct. 27 -- Melissa Arnot Reid first came to Nepal in 2008 as an assistant guide on an Everest expedition. She was 23 and had been guiding for only three years. She had arrived, by her own account, with "an incredible level of naivety." Summitting Everest, she thought then, was "the master's degree for a guide", a way to be taken seriously. She made it to the top on her very first try.

Reid returned to Nepal every year for the subsequent 18 springs. And on Monday, she held the Nepal launch of her memoir-'Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest'-at Le Sherpa Restaurant in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu. The Pasang Lhamu Foundation, named after the first Nepali woman to climb Everest, who died on the descent in 1993, hosted ...