Co-winner of the 2022 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain
Literature
**Co-winner of the 2022 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
**
The golden age of Himalayan mountaineering, from the mid 1970s to the
'80s, brought forth a generation of radical young climbers. With tiny
budgets and high ambitions they pioneered small scale, Alpine-style
expeditions on mountains such as Jannu, Nuptse, Everest, and K2. In
High Risk, Brian Hall recalls the outrageous adventures of eleven of
his climbing friends who risked, and too often lost, their lives to
stand on some of the world's highest peaks at a turning point in
mountaineering history.