Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface

Chapter One Life of a Salesman

Chapter Two Death of a Salesman

Chapter Three Birth of a Mountain Climber

Chapter Four Pera Palace

Chapter Five The Dying Nomad

Chapter Six Airing in a Closed Carriage

Chapter Seven A Little Bit of Protocol

Chapter Eight Panjshir Valley

Chapter Nine A Walk in the Sun

Chapter Ten Finding our Feet

Chapter Eleven Western Approaches

Chapter Twelve Round 1

Chapter Thirteen Coming Round the Mountain

Chapter Fourteen Round 2

Chapter Fifteen Knock-out

Chapter Sixteen Over the Top

Chapter Seventeen Going Down!

Chapter Eighteen A Room with a View

Chapter Nineteen Disaster at Lake Mundul

Chapter Twenty Beyond the Arayu

Epilogue to the 50th Anniversary Edition

Notes

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Maps

About the author

Praise

By the same author

About the publisher