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One of the world's leading rock climbers describes how, inspired by a little-known account by a British World War II soldier, he and a companion journeyed into the heart of the uncharted Borneo jungle to climb the mountain Batu Lawi, in an action-filled narrative that draws together the experiences of adventurers separated by fifty years. 30,000 first printing.
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Sam Lightner, Jr., is an internationally renowned rock climber who is credited with the first ascent of more than one hundred routes around the world, and has traveled to more than forty-five countries. He has appeared on the cover of Outside magazine, and his 1999 ascent of Batu Lawi was the subject of a documentary. He divides his time between Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Thailand.
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99, when mankind had successfully mapped the surface of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, there were still sections of Borneo that man had nothing to say about other than all elevations unknown.
In the spring of 1999, armed with little more than a description from a book and a map labeled all elevations unknown, Sam Lightner and his German rock-climbing buddy, Volker, found themselves deep in the jungles of Borneo on a mission to climb a mountain that was only rumored to exist. They had only their climbing expertise to rely on and a copy of a little-known book titled World Within, written by Major Tom Harrison, a British World War II soldier who had been one of the first white men ever to explore the interior jungles of the island and interact with its native peoples. He had also conducted one of the most daring and unusual campaigns in military history: In 1945, he had been assigned the near-impossible mission of parachuting blindly into the thic
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