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Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss: Life and Death at the Birth of Free-Climbing

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Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature

Shortlisted for the 2019 Boardman Tasker Award

An intriguing biography of the renowned Austrian alpinist Paul Preuss, who achieved international recognition both for his remarkable solo ascents and for his advocacy of an ethically "pure" alpinism (meaning without any artificial aids).

In the months before his death in 1913, from falling more than 300 metres during an attempt to make the first free solo ascent of the Nor...