FIVA – An adventure that went wrong

Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong is the epic true account from Gordon
Stainforth of a near-death experience on a mountain in Norway in 1969.

In the summer of 1969, as Apollo 11 was blasting off to the moon, two teenage
twin brothers, with only three years` mountaineering experience, set off to
climb one of the highest rock faces in Europe. With just two bars of
chocolate, some sandwiches, a four-sentence route description and an old
sketch map, they left their tent early one morning with the full expectation
of being back in time for tea. Within a few hours things had gone badly wrong,
they were looking death in the face, and the English Home Counties seemed very
far away…