Peaks and Pioneers - The Story of Mountaineering

PEAKS AND PIONEERS unfolds the spellbinding two-hundred-year drama of mountaineering. Here is the story of how a gallant company of very different men and women - dukes, cowherds, biologists, literary critics, economists, artists, prospectors and plumbers - reacted to the mountains they climbed, how they met difficulties and danger with comradeship, joy and unbelievable courage.