In Some Lost Place

Prologue; Part 1 -- THe Magic Bus; Chapter 1 -- Team Spirit; Chapter 2 -- Mentors; Chapter 3 -- The Road to Nanga Parbat; Part 2 -- Mazeno; Chapter 4 -- The Dividing Line; Chapter 5 -- Mind the Gap; Chapter 6 -- Splitting Up; Chapter 7 -- Pushing On; Part 3 -- The Summit; Chapter 8 -- In Some Lost Place; Chapter 9 -- The Edge of Extinction; Chapter 10 -- Descent; Chapter 11 -- Return; Acknowledgements; Photographs.;In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya – the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain. At ten kilometres in length, the Mazeno is the longest route to the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. Ten expeditions had tried and failed to climb this enormous ridge. Eleven days later two of the team, Sandy Allan and Rick Allen, both in their late fifties, reached the summit. They had run out of food and water and began hallucinating wildly from the effects of altitude and exhaustion.