Notes

first published in Great Britain 1991, first US paperback 1998 translated by Jill Neate Messner takes us from the days of his first climb of the Sass Rigais in the Dolomites with his father at age 5 to his later turning away from the overcrowded Alps and 8,000 meter peaks to find climbing fulfillment in the remoter parts of the world and in crossing the wastes of of Antartica.