Seattle, 1981, 1st edition. 310 pp, ills. A fascinating account of climbs on Broad Peak, Kangchenjunga, Kusum Kanguru, Everest and Nuptse. Several climbs were done with famous British climbers as Peter Boardman, Doug Scott and Joe Tasker.
In this lyric book Bettenbourg reaches deep within himself to recount what was revealed while he bathed in the fiery floods and resided in thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice, later to be blown with restless violence, He did not know that he would encounter the White Death when he set out to climb many of the world's highest mountains in the pure and honored Alpine tradition of no artificially induced oxygen, no fixed ropes, no fixed camps, no high altitude porters, and no reserve climbers. DJ, Near Fine.
