Cross-country author, rider, climber slates Pullman stop

Author Isabel Suppe` will visit Pullman as a stop on her bicycling trip from New York City to the west coast. She will meet the public and tell her story at B & L Bicycles at 5 p.m. next Wednesday, July 17.

While climbing in July of 2010, Isabel fell 1,100 feet off Ala Izquierda del Condoriri’s southeast face in the Bolivian Andes. Stranded with a severely exposed fracture, Isabel crawled over jagged ice and rock for two days at 16,000 feet above sea level before finally being rescued.

Soon after, she was told that she would never climb again. Three weeks later, she was climbing up a rock wall...