Title Page
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
Foreword by John Middendorf
Preface to the 2012 Edition
Introduction – Playing the System
Crack
1 Fire-Starter
2 Rubble Merchants, Slateheads and Others
3 Lost in the Broccoli Garden
4 A Piece of Driftwood
5 On the Big Stone
6 Bhagirathi Diary
Outside the Asylum
7 Central Tower of Paine: El Regalo de Mwono
8 Paine North Tower: El Caballo de Diablo
9 Just Passing Through
10 The Doctor and the Witch
11 A Game One Climber Played
12 Adrift
13 Hyperborea
14 A Survivor’s Affair
15 Making Castles in the Sand
Deep Players
16 On the Shark’s Fin with Philip Lloyd
17 Accidental Hero – Silvo Karo
18 A Lesson in Healing from Andy Parkin
Author’s Glossary
Notes about the Essays
Plates
Copyright