What emerges from Rose and Douglas's narrative is a very different, more complete picture of Alison Hargreaves than ever before. With … What emerges from Rose and Douglas's narrative is a very different, more complete picture of Alison Hargreaves than ever before. With vivid descriptions of the intense roughness, skill, and courage demanded of climbers at the sport's highest level set against the discord and uncertainty of her home life, Regions of the Heart provides an in-depth understanding of Hargreaves' passion for the mountains—a passion intensified by her devotion to her children. Though her achievements were minimized on the media battleground after her death at age thirty-three, Rose and Douglas carefully and powerfully illustrate that her climbing successes formed the very core of Alison Hargreaves' character.
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