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Index
Cover
Contents
Foreword by Hamish MacInnes
Early Years
Chapter 1: Twists of the Thread
Chapter 2: Siren Song
Pre-War Climbing in Scotland
Chapter 3: Rocks and Climbers
Chapter 4: Renaissance: 1930s
Chapter 5: The Winter Ascent of Garrick’s Shelf
Fortunes of War
Chapter 6: The Home Front
Chapter 7: North Africa
Chapter 8: To Iraq and Cyprus
Chapter 9: The Battle of the Cauldron
Incarceration
Chapter 10: Stone Walls: Chieti
Chapter 11: To Bavaria and Bohemia
Chapter 12: Brunswick
The Post-War World
Chapter 13: Home
Chapter 14: The Right Holds
Chapter 15: Freedom – Decisions to Make
Chapter 16: First Steps
Chapter 17: The Alps: Highs and Lows
First Expeditions to the Himalaya
Chapter 18: Introduction to the Garhwal
Chapter 19: To the Rishi Gorge
Chapter 20: Attempts on Bethartoli Himal and Hanuman
Chapter 21: Mountaineering and Medicine in Dunagiri
Chapter 22: The Ascent of Uja Tirche and an attempt on Lampak South
Chapter 23: Through the Girthi Gorge to Milam
Chapter 24: The Ralam Pass and Panch Chuli
Chapter 25: The Untrodden Ranges: Around Menlungste and Gaurisankar
Exploring the Api Massif
Chapter 26: Approach to Api: The Kali Gorge
Chapter 27: Api and Nampa
Chapter 28: Yokapahar Himal – Warnings
Chapter 29: Tibet – Into Chinese Held Territory
Chapter 30: The Seti Gorge
Chapter 31: A Meeting with the Rajah of Bajhang
Everest and the Muztagh Tower
Chapter 32: Everest and the Muztagh Tower: The seemingly impossible overcome
Concerns Closer to Home
Chapter 33: Return to Scotland
Chapter 34: The Cragsmen of Lewis: How they climbed the Great Stac of Handa
Chapter 35: The Life of Ben Humble: Tribute to a Fighter
Chapter 36: A Writer’s World
Chapter 37: Conservation
Chapter 38: Tomorrow
Epilogue
Appendices
Appendix I: Murray’s Books, Plays and Articles plus a selection of relevant articles and books by others
Appendix II: Sundry Correspondence
Appendix III: Writing about Climbing and Mountain Landscape
Appendix IV: The Rob Roy Affair
Appendix V: Publishing and the Practicalities of the Writing Business
Photographs, Maps and Illustrations
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