London, 1971, 1st edition. 266 pp, 25 ills. A leading figure in mountaineering in the 1950's-60's, who pioneered routes in Britain, the Alps and Himalaya. DJ, Near Fine or Fine.
This is the climbing autobiography of legendary climber, Don Whillans. He had a colorful personality and an uncanny ability to crack hard route difficulties by using inventive moves and excellent, innate good route-finding.
After writing this book he continued to climb and was on one of the early attempts (big international expedition) to climb the SW Face of Mount Everest. His climbing partners included Dougal Haston, Joe Brown, Ian Clough, Chris Bonington, Wilfrid Noyce, Dennis Gray, Royal Robbins, etc. Whillans died of a heart attack in 1985.
