Daniel Light

The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering. "A beautifully written and sure-footed history of mountaineering 'before Everest', full of wonderful stories and spanning continents and centuries. A splendid debut." – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author of Shackleton Beautiful, remote and dangerous – for generations we have looked to the...