Climbing Mount Everest has become a big bucket list item with a tourism structure that will help you do it, even if it is still a dangerous and sometimes deadly climb. For Sharon Wood, it was arduous as she is not only the first Canadian woman to climb Everest, she was the first North American woman. and the first woman ever to successfully climb the West Ridge from Tibet. She made that climb in 1986, but the Canmore has waited till now to write her memoir about it. Sharon Wood spoke with Russell Bowers.