Portraits of the great mountaineers — Mallory, Shipton, Tilman, Hillary and Tenzing, Bonington, Messner, Boardman and Tasker, Lynn Hill, Steve House, and a long list besides — each with photographs, a short life, and a passage in their own words. Lewis-Jones is a polar and mountain historian and the picture research is the strength: Expedition portraits, gear, camps, faces at altitude. Reinhold Messner wrote the foreword. It’s a browsing book, and a good way to see how the whole idea of what a climber is has changed over a century.
Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure