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 in a cast.

Isabel defied all odds and refused to believe that she would never be able to climb again. She successfully became the first woman to create a new climbing line on Serkhe Khollu in the Bolivian Andes just one year after her accident. A very difficult route, she summited solo and on crutches.

Beginning in June, Suppe started her trip across the United States promoting her book, "Starry Night" which tells the full story of her survival, resilience, and passion for adventure.