In 1985 Chris Bonington crowned an already distinguished mountaineering career by reaching the summit of Everest at the age of 50 - an achievement which won him enormous popular acclaim and affection. His new volume of autobiography chronicles his four expeditions to the world's highest peak from early attempts on the huge South-West Face, through to eventual success in 1975, moving in 1982 to the tragic North-East Ridge trip, and culminating in the very successful Norwegian expedition of 1985. He tellls of his fascination with the highest point on earth and why it meant so much to him finally to stand there himself...