From WSJbooks: In 1937, a Czech aristocrat became the first woman to win what was (and still is) considered the world’s most dangerous steeplechase. richardaskwith tells her story in 'Unbreakable.'
The whole point of a challenge is that it be achievable. Unsolvable puzzles and unwinnable games are of no interest to anyone. No one would watch a foot race in which the hurdles were set at 7 feet.
What would be the point? The 19th-century designers of the race called the Velká Pardubická came close to designing an impossible steeplechase, journalist Richard Askwith concludes in a book that is as much a story of the race itself as it is a biography of the only woman ever to have won it. It took years, he recounts, “to work out just how far back the frontiers of common sense could be pushed in pursuit of the ultimate...
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