This is a story about the successes of Slovenian, and, to a lesser extent, Croatian mountaineering, led by Stipe Božić, across the frozen, steepest, and most dangerous Himalayan cliffs in the world. The successes of the climbers are conveyed by important authorities in world alpinism, including New Zealander Edmund Hillary, the legendary Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley, world-renowned Italian alpinist Reinhold Messner, and British actor Brian Blessed. According to the book... see more