Beyond the Mountain

What does it take to be one of the world’s best high-altitude mountain climbers? It takes raising funds for an expedition, negotiating some of the world’s most dangerous countries, suffering freezing-cold bivouacs and enduring the discomforts of high altitude. It also means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach.

This book explores those lessons. Dubbed by Reinhold Messner, ‹The best high- altitude climber in the world today.› Steve House’s story chronicles his experiences in the worlds highest mountains, each chapter revealing a different aspect of mountaineering. Beyond the Mountain by Steve House describes what it takes to be one of the world’s best high-altitude mountain climbers.

Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty. In 2005 Steve and alpinist Vince Anderson pioneered a direct new route on the Rupal Face of 26,600-foot Nanga Parbat, which had never before been climbed in alpine style. It was the third ascent of the face and the achievement earned Steve and Vince the first Piolet d’or (Golden Ice Axe) awarded to North Americans.

Steve is an accomplished and spellbinding storyteller in the tradition of Maurice Herzog and Lionel Terray. Beyond the Mountain is a gripping listen, destined to be a mountain classic. And it addresses many issues common to nonclimbing life – mentorship, trust, failure success, goal setting, heroes, partnership – as well as the mountaineer’s heightened experience of risk and the deaths of friends. Beyond the Mountain is a window into the process of a man working to be the best he can be.

Paperback edit. 2009
No of Pages: 244
Page Size: 156 x 234 mm
Binding: Paperback
Illustrations: colour plates