THIN AIR Encounters in the Himalayas

Thin Air is about the intensity of climbing `on the edge`, it is about
friendship and tragedies and the beauty of Baltoro Glacier` s landscape.
Climbing a Himalayan peak was the stuff of Greg Child`s wildest dreams. Then
in the late 1970s came a surprise berth on an expedition that was to define
his career as a high-altitude mountaineer and transform him personally. A
chronicle of his apprenticeship, Thin Air established Child as one of the
great mountaineering writers of our time.

Thin Air is about the intensity of climbing on the edge day after day. It is
about friendships and tragedies and the memories that linger for decades.
Filled with humor, irony, and pathos, Thin Air touches us with the beauty of
the Baltoro Glacier`s landscape and encounters with the local people. It also
paints portraits of legendary mountaineers Doug Scott, Don Whillans, Alan
Rouse, and others.