Risking adventure

Himalayas, Karakoram, Andes - the big mountain ranges of the world have always held a certain mystique and allure. Time and again, people undergo great hardship and brave considerable danger to climb the planet’s most difficult peaks. Why do they risk it? It’s an age-old question with perhaps as many answers as there are climbers.Jim Haberl, one of Canada’s foremost mountain climbers, explores the concepts of adventure and risk through a series of live personal experiences in some of the Earth’s toughest mountain regions. With stunning color photography and prose as clear as an alpine stream, Haberl captures the excitement and exhilaration of clim ing K2 in the Pakistani Karakoram, the Devil’s Thumb on the Alaska-British Columbia border, Alpamayo in the Peruvian Andes, and Mounts Kenya and Kilimanjaro in Africa. As an added bonus, he also throws in a gripping ski journey in an undiscovered section of the Indian Himalayas.