The Lyons Press

FOREWORDIt is nearly fifty years since Tenzing and I first set foot on the summit of Mount Everest and since then a huge number of books have been published about the mountain. But Doctor on Everest, written by Dr. Kenneth Kamler, is very different. It describes in great detail the life of one of...

Introduction E ^ ssentially, every time w^e set out to play golf, v^e set out in search of untold stories. Not every one wiU be a classic, of course, unless we can expand our fairways to include absurdity, burlesque, and all the other insanely hysterical things we human beings are capable of...

Foreword On my one trip to ALASKA, in 1982, i WAS flattened on a glacier landing strip by a skiplane. My hip smashed off a piece of the plane's tail, and the tail nearly removed a piece of my hip. Though plane and climber flew and walked again, this imbroglio served as a fitting end to a...

Preface Autumn had thrown its golden cloak over the land, and the earth lay hushed. The eerie howls of hounds pierced the icy air. After a one-hour dash through devil's club and over deadfalls they had finally treed their target. High above the hounds, draped like a plush rug over the twisted...