Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; How to Use this Book; Europe; Store Trolltind and Trollveggen; Ben Nevis; Scarfell Crag and East Buttress; Mieguszowiecki Group; Mont Blanc; The Matterhorn; The Eiger; Triglav; Marmolada; Shkhara; The Vignemale; Mulhacen.; Artic and North America; Nalumasortoq; Mount Asgard; Mount McKinley; Mount Logan; Mount Robson; Mount Waddington; El Capitan; Grand Teton; Devil's Tower; Shiprock; El Pico; de Orizaba.; South America; Chimborazo; Huascaran; Aconcagua; Illimani; Cerro Torre.; Antarctica; Visson Massif; Mount Paget.; Indonesia and Oceania; Kinabalu; Carstensz Pyramid; Mount Tutoko; Aoraki-Mount Cook.; High Asia, Korea and Japan; Khan Tengri; Pik Kommunizma; Kamchatka; Tirich Mir Massif; Gasherbrum IV; Mount Huithen; Nanga Parbat; Kangchenjunga; Mount Everest; Nanda Devi; Shivling; Sorak San; Yari-ga Take.; Africa; Jebel Toubkal; Margherita; Mount Kenya; Kilimanjaro; The Authors; International Route Grades; Glossary; Index; Acknowledgements.

About the Author

Audrey Salkeld A highly respected and experienced mountaineering writer and historian, Audrey Salkeld is the author of The Mystery of Mallory aand Irvine and People in High Places, and translator of books by Reinhold Messner and Kurt Diemberger. In 1996, her accounts of the tragic events on Everest that spring, written while she was working as a reporter with the IMAX Everest Expedition, were broadcast by Nova Online. Also in 1996, her book A Portroit of Leni Riefenstahl won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. She has written a number of scripts for television documentaries, including Great Climbs with Chris Bonington.