Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit

The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme.



Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination-and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes.



His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons ...