Lisa Roderick makes Anchorage Daily News 2025 list of favorite books!

Lisa Roderick, author of A Place Among Giants: 22 Seasons at Denali Basecamp, has made Anchorage Daily News reporters’ “Favorite Books of 2025” list!

“The giants referenced in Roderick’s title, we learn, are Denali and the other mountains of the Alaska Range, but they might as well include the climbing guides, mountain rangers, glacier pilots, and rescuers who fill this absolutely absorbing memoir. “A Place Among Giants” chronicles the two-plus decades during which the author managed the basecamp on Denali’s Kahiltna Glacier, from which permitted climbers (over a thousand each year) mount their expeditions.

“Roderick’s immersive writing takes readers right into the heart of life at the basecamp, including the logistics of daily life, the various personalities with whom she dealt, and the partying and pranks that helped define the community. She presents the pilots and rangers in memorable detail and does an equally exemplary job of describing the lives of alpinists and, always with understanding and personal anguish, some of the mountaineering and aviation tragedies that occurred during her time.

“Beyond telling the story of a singular life in a remarkable place, “A Place Among Giants” asks readers to consider the values that shape a life and what it means to make choices that balance risk and safety, the needs of oneself and others, the ambitions of youth and the graces of maturity.”

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