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Index
Acknowledgements
Kurt Diemberger
PART 1
I Can Never Give Up the Mountains
Spirits of the Air
The Second Birthday
Double Solo on Zebru
Crystals from Mont Blanc
I Win a Car
As a Mountain Guide
PART 2
The Magic Carpet
How I got involved with Filming
Blind Man’s Buff
Friendly Margherita
Our Brush with an Anaconda
Montserrat
On the Puddingstone with Jordi Pons and Jose Manuel Anglada
PART 3
Hindu Kush – Two Men and Nineteen Camps
The Tactics of a Mini Expedition
Nudging Alpine-Style a Step Further
An Expedition Journal
Two Chickens Come Home to Roost
Neck and Neck with Reinhold
The Third Eight-Thousander?
Climbing the 8,000-Metre Peaks
PART 4
In the Eternal Ice
On the Trail of Alfred Wegener
Who was Alfred Wegener?
A Green Land?
Origins of an Expedition
The Voyage to Greenland
‘Modern Times’ in Umanak and Uvkusigsat
The Difficult Landing
Dogs? Propeller Sledges? Horses?
Ascent to the Inland Ice
First Finds
1930: Towards Station Eismitte
The Sledge Journeys
The Propeller Sledge Fiasco
Nunatak Scheideck, a Treasure Trove!
Alfred Wegener’s Last Journey
Qioqe, Agpatat and – the Final Take
PART 5
A Night on Stromboli
… and Everyday Life in Italy
‘I Canali’ – the Channels
The Millipede
PART 6
A New World
Impressions Gained During an Extended North American Lecture Tour, and its Aftermath
How to Catch a Millionaire
Milestones in California
Fifty-Six Steps Around a General
Grand Canyon – A Sunken World
Atlanta – The Holy City
The Lake
In the Plane
A Goddess of Nature
The Wizard – Climbing the Needles of Sierra Nevada
On the Gulf
PART 7
Makalu (8,481 metres) – The Turning Point
Yang Lhe – The Enchanted Forest
Through East Nepal
Strikes – Left With Nine Out of a Hundred
Chance and Mischance with the Oxygen – My Friends’ Summit
Makalu ... With a Monkey Wrench
Depot Kurt
‘Take One’ …
On the Summit of Everest
Death Valley in Winter
PART 8
Hildegard Peak (6,189 metres) – Island Peak
The Green Flash
Gasherbrum II
Spirits of the Air
A New Horizon
Under the Spell of the Shaksgam
APPENDICES
A Chronology of Main Climbs and Expeditions
A Note on Terminology
A Selected Bibliography
Note on Heights
Photographs
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