This book is a love letter from a wife to her husband, reminiscing the entire history and course of their relationship and severe health challenges that struck them without damaging their spirit, love of adventure and optimism. It's fine if you read it as a biography of an ordinary couple to kill time.

It fails as a travel guide, with no details on how to plan your 'gap year' as a thirty/forty-plus middle-income couple leaving jobs and dumping everything to go backpacking and camping around the world for a year, it gives no details on their financials, the actual cost of travel, lodgings/ hotels, the fancy rentals cars,/ vans, places, fees, security, insurance, medications and health risks they must have factored in while making plans or any credit card debt they may have incurred, or anything else (like encountering any issues with renters they left the place to, e.g. leaky faucets and bills!). It's on to France, then Australia, then NewZealand and I am forgetting 2 other places and they are back home by 2013 and that's that.

So if you want to know what to do if you are planning to go see the world while your parents and friends wait for you back home, this book is not for you.

For anyone surviving a major illness and their spouse, it is life-affirming and highly recommended.

Has good and lots of pictures of the couple taken during their one-year travel.

One More Mountain is a great inspirational read! It will make you think that you can accomplish anything!

I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley in return for an honest review. As someone currently considering doing the same as Caroline and her husband and leaving life behind for a year or so, I was looking forward to reading One More Mountain and finding out more about the experience. There were some good travel tips, and I enjoyed the details about the camping and hiking along the way. Perhaps there could have been more time given to the travel sections - some parts were glossed over a little in favour of the parallel storylines running through the book. I found the 3 timelines a bit difficult to follow to begin with, as I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention to the dates! I wonder if a linear timeline would have worked better for the flow of the book - I think the storyline had enough ups and downs without the need to jump back and forth so much along the way. Having said this, I read the book in a few days and did really enjoy it!

I had expected this book to be about travel but travel was only a small portion of this novel. I'm a little disappointed but that doesn't mean this was a bad book by any meals. It's more about love, loss, and struggles within marriage and life and just adulthood in general. Though this wasn't what I expected it was still good but I do wish more of an "adult gap year" was talked about! Thanks so much to the publisher and to netgalley for the copy.

I am sad to say this was a disappointing read which I only finished because reviewing it would otherwise be unfair; but I couldn’t find anything I liked.
First of all, the writing style is a personal first-time blog rather than a book. There are too many overused expressions, unnecessary phrases and some mistakes as well as no clear theme. This seemed, from the description, cover and categorisation, to be a travel book, but less than half of it was on the road, with the most part being “the early years” of the couple and “the countdown” full of practical but very personal information which was too detailed to be of much use.
I understand the early years formed the couple to be who they are and that they had serious mountains to overcome which eventually led them to go travelling for a year, but this was as much a story of cancer and hospital visits as it was travel. This is to say it is a personal story of one couple rather than a read for someone who likes to explore, or at least arm chair travel.
The travel sections were sandwiched in between and even those did not make me want to travel much, talking mostly about the state of facilities, her dislike for camping even though it was their chosen mode of travel, and recurring comments aimed at “the ladies” about hair and living without make-up.
Maybe some of this is generational and others can relate better. But to me as an avid traveller (we would have actually crossed paths, we were in Sydney the same month of 2010) it gave me no joy of armchair travel or memories, let alone travel ideas.

Thank you for advanced copy of the book.

I was drawn to this book by the description and the cover and slightly lost during it as expected it to be just about the travel but the travel aspect is actually the shortest part of the book.
I found myself having to read over some parts as it did as the previous member states move around between the planning, the trip and the treatment of her husband.

I think the author would of have been best to stick to the treatment aspect and done a book purely on that as this part was painfully honest and well written.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was around 2.5 stars for me.

I thought this book would be about a couple travelling the world, but really there seems to be three parts of the story the author focuses on. The book isn't linear so we jump around from planning for the trip, to the trip its self, to the author's husband being treated for lymphoma, to when the couple first met, back to the trip, and so forth. I found the jumping around rather jarring and hard to keep up with at times.

Honestly there isn't a lot of detail about the trip and the travel portion is probably the smallest part of this book. After six says in Singapore it's approximately one paragraph in the whole book. Similarly, sites around Australia and New Zealand are short compared to anecdotes about the car and camping and other experiences. There are also anecdotes throughout the book that don't seem to contribute to the story or solidify a point, such as a story about birth control and another about house buying that to me read as a thing that happened but not information I need to know to understand this story.

What Frost and her husband went through is painful and terrifying. It is brave to share the story of her husband's treatment and what they went through as a couple. But if you're looking for a story on what it's like to travel the world, this may not be the read for you.