The Last Blue Mountain - Softcover

Ralph Barker

3.97

107 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0906371058 ISBN 13: 9780906371053

Publisher: Diadem Books, 1979

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The heartrending true story of one of the most tragic of mountain misadventures. The 1957 expedition to Haramosh Peak in the Karakoram range in Pakistan is a tale in the same genre as "Touching the Void" - of an expedition that has gone terribly wrong. Two climbers in the party are avalanched into a snow basin at 20000 feet, two other climbers try to rescue them but get stuck themselves in the process. "The Last Blue Mountain" tells of three days and three nights without food or water as the climbers try and extricate one another from an icy grave. As told by Ralph Barker, it is an epic of human endeavour and fortitude.

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Review:

Equalling, if not excelling, "Touching the Void".
-- Irish Mountain Log, Winter 2006

In moments of disaster, men write a chapter in the progress of man which time cannot erase. -- Charles S. Houston

No more agonising story has every come from the long quest that takes men into untrodden places. -- Yorkshire Post.

Rarely have men been called upon to make such a decision as these men. -- Irish Times

The last part of the book is merciless to the feelings of the reader. -- Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

Ralph Barker is a non-fiction writer and journalist, a contributor for more than 30 years to the London Sunday Express. He has now written 30 books, of which "The Last Blue Mountain" was only his third. He still thinks it is his best, probably because of the memorable and contrasting characters of the climbers. His subjects range from aviation (in both world wars), the war at sea, biography, terrorism, and, for relaxation, to cricket.

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