1992. 312 pp. A novel by the author of Summit Fever, this concerns the relationships of Scottish climbers and weaves the age-old themes of love, death and madness. Hardcover, New.<P>
At the centre of the novel is the crumbling seastack of the Old Man of Hoy and the consuming relationship between a young artist, Kim, coldly passionate, talented, secretive, and Jimmy, a North Sea roughneck, engineer and climber. It deals with the possibility of friendship between men and women.