A Terrible Beauty: A Story of Love and Loss in Bolivia (Abridged Version)
It was the towering Illimani mountain that drew my husband, Jim, and me to the window as our airplane lifted off from La Paz on the last leg of a 7000-mile journey to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Much like on majestic Mt. Rainier, which crowns our home state of Washington, ragged glacial crevasses gave visual warning to the dangers en route to the summit. Looking at Illimani, my thoughts ranged to another Bolivian mountain, where in May of 1998 our 25-year-old daughter, Krista Hunt A