I first read this book in 2004 when I solo-trekked to Everest Base Camp. I remember loving the book at the time, swept up as I was in the immensity of making it alone to EBC, never mind the mountain itself. I read everything I could lay my hands on …
I am a huge fan of Mick Conefrey’s books, all of which I have listened to as audio books, as I trot round the streets of New Delhi (where I live). I have trained for mountaineering expeditions (w-a-y more modest than the ones he writes about!) and for marathons, listening …
Wilting in Delhi’s fearsome summer heat and humidity, and still wary because of the pandemic, I am currently on a mountain reading binge, trying to imagine/will myself out of the heat and up into the hills. Of all the books I’ve read of late, this one might just be my …
This is the second book by Mr. Horrell that I have read in as many weeks, all part of my “trying to escape from lockdown tedium” strategy, and it has certainly worked, firing me up with all kinds of crazy plans to Go Forth And Conquer. The book tells the …
