The Wandering Pilgrim: Expeditions to the NZ Alps, Changabang, Khan Tengri, Everest and Broad Peak

Adventurers are a breed apart. Mere mortals regard their extreme activities with awe and amazement. Why do they put themselves through such hardship and pain, facing needless risk and injury?

"Because it's there" is the simple time-worn answer provided by one of their breed quoted in The Wandering Pilgrim. But this thrilling selection of one man's sixty years of travels does much more than that - it takes us into some of the world's wildest and most remote places.

Culled from diaries written ...