High Mountains & Cold Seas: A Biography of H.W. Tilman

A splendid biography of this very remarkable man, giving us not only the high adventures, vividly described, but also the man himself in his strange complexity. In addition to all else, Tilman was an almost compulsive letter writer, and in his letters - from which the author quotes generously - he came closest to self-revelation. In every way an absorbing book.