2024 National Outdoor Book Award Winner "This finely crafted adventure tale runs on adrenaline but also something else: brutal honesty." --The Wall Street Journal "I couldn't lay it down until it was all finished (12:40 a.m. )... A fascinating and beautifully-written...
Minus 148 is one of the few true classics in the literature of mountaineering. It is no simple tale of heroism and valour, like Annapurna, but rather a vexed, uneven story of doubt, failure, whim, courage, tragedy. The expedition was unbalanced, with the strong members far superior...