Elusive Summits
Victor Saunders on four expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the Himalaya and Karakoram. Wry, self-deprecating, and technically precise. Saunders writes about failure as well as anyone writes about success.
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No Easy Way
Mick Fowler's account of climbing unclimbed peaks in the Himalaya, Karakoram, and beyond. Fowler is a tax inspector by day and one of the world's most adventurous alpine climbers by vacation. The combination is quintessentially British.
Painted Mountains
A climbing expedition to the Karakoram told with literary grace. The mountains are painted in the title and in the prose — vivid, layered, and colored by the cultures at their base.
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Sacred Summits
The collected climbing diaries — Changabang, Kongur, and the expeditions that defined British Himalayan climbing in the late 1970s. Spare, honest, and haunted by what was coming. The author died on Everest in 1982.
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