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It is the early '50s and Britons are embarked on the latest attempt to conquer Everest. Back home two former climbing aces are accused of cowardice by their fellows and drown their sorrows in gin. Until that is, a dangerous request is made of them that takes them back to the treacherous heights of the Italian Alps -an exploit that brings back the ghosts of a wartime gunfight with Nazi soldiers and an encounter with the pitiless cruelty of nature itself.
Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He has sailed the North Atlantic on deep sea fishing boats, tramped the battlefields of France and trekked solo through the mountains of Norway.