Caroline Ware-George was born in the midst of the Swiss Alps into a family of outdoors lovers. Paradoxically, she didn't really enjoy the outdoors herself until she got into a serious accident in the mountains that left her flat on her back for two months with many broken bones and a "disease" from which she has never been cured: a passion for mountains. After competing in the Ice World Cup for three years, Caroline returned to her roots and became the first American woman to climb the three great north faces of the Alps: The Eiger, the Matterhorn and the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses—all in just three months.