Fatal mountaineer

Winner of the 2002 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and described
by the New York Times as bewitching a wonderfully zany vision of heroism, this
book tells the life and death story of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan
legend. A riveting and somewhat critical examination of the 1976
Indian/American Nanda Devi expedition led by Unsoeld. It deals with the
troubled expedition, the deep philosophical issues that develop and with the
death of Unsoeld` s daughter Nanda Devi at 24,000 feet on her namesake
mountain.