Features Dan Richards who is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I A Richards, remained a mystery to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir leads him on a journey.

An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and their impact on the human spirit, from the co-author of Holloway