2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Mountain Literature

    Recounts some of the most dangerous feats in mountaineering history
    Insights into the human attraction to danger and suffering
    Award-winning author

While you wouldn't expect climbing an 8000-meter peak in winter to be a popular activity, there have been 178 expeditions (as of 2019) to the Himalaya and Karakoram during the cruelest season to do just that. Polish alpinist, Voytek Kurtyka, termed the practice the...