Lance Armstrong has frequently said in interviews and his books that one of the biggest factors that shaped his life and his determination to succeed was his mother, Linda Armstrong Kelly. No Mountain High Enough is Linda Armstrong Kelly's own story, "the totally biased, slanted, rationalized, and confabulated story of my life according to me," as she writes in the acknowledgements.
There's a foreword by Armstrong himself before you get into the meat of the book: the story of how his mother was thrown out by her family when she got pregnant at just 17, and subsequently struggled - successfully - to bring up young Lance and make her own way in the world. |