Andy Cave, Biography

"This passion of mine had started long ago when, as an inquisitive teanager, I scrambled up the local pit muckstack. Later, as a teanager coalminer disillusioned with the world of dirt and darkness, I had fallen in love with real mountain climbing. That night, approaching the tent on the knife-edge ridge of Changabang, this love affair was about to end. The following four days would be the most harrowing of my life."

In the Himalaya in 1997 Andy achieved a courageous first ascent on one of the steepest and most difficult summits in the world - the North Face of Changabang. Seventeen days later, he and only two of his teammates crawled into base camp, frostbitten, emaciated and traumatised. His account of this terrifying experience provides a dramatic climax to this compelling story.

ISBN: 009180034x
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