An interesting & unusual story: an account of Peter Hillary's 1998 attempt to walk across the South Pole. The story follows the break-up of the team and the ensuing descent into temporary madness. The expedition became, for Peter, a hallucinogenicjourney through a country populated by ghosts: ghosts of friends who died on prior expeditions, and the ghost of his dad, Sir Edmund Hillary. The book is a joyful tribute to the craft of mountaineering, a Shackleton-like tale of endurance, and anadventure story and introspective memoir with rare insight 368pp Hillary & Elder isbn 743243692 |
