Linda Albert

Sometimes we have to break the rules to survive … especially to survive what writer and baby boomer Linda Albert calls “the second half of life.” She broke her own rules by going on an expedition of Outward Bound. Read her adventure and ask yourself, could you do what she did?

I am nine-tenths up the side of a 25 foot rock in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in upper Minnesota, close to the Canadian boarder. It is late July. I am 53 years old. I have no idea if the weather is fair or foul since I am focused on one thing, and one thing only. I am stuck. Totally and completely stuck, stomach pressed against the unforgiving granite, left foot perched on a tiny outcropping of rock at an improbable angle to my body, at least two large stair levels in height above the right foot, which is currently flailing for a purchase. My hands are clamped for dear life on an overhang above.

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