– Contents –

Prologue Storm at Sea

Chapter 1 Deskbound: Mourning and Angry

Chapter 2 Boy Soldier

Chapter 3 Leaving the Nest

Chapter 4 Everest 1996

Chapter 5 A Dangerous Place to Linger

Chapter 6 Rescues in the Icefall

Chapter 7 Prelude to Tragedy

Chapter 8 Death is a Stone’s Throw Away

Chapter 9 Leaving the Dead – Sorting out the Living

Chapter 10 The Desire to Live

Chapter 11 The Height of Pettiness

Chapter 12 Helicopter to the Rescue

Chapter 13 An Adventurous Sabbatical

Chapter 14 Chomolungma Continues to Rumble

Chapter 15 View from the Top

Chapter 16 The Summit at Last

Chapter 17 Most Climbers Die During the Descent

Chapter 18 A Sad Search

Chapter 19 Genocide and Regicide

Chapter 20 Everest in the Dock

Postscript The New Everest

Photographs