This is the heart-breaking, triumphant and inspirational story of Tomaz Humar, who fled Civil War in Yugoslavia and became one of the world's greatest - and most controversial - mountaineers.

Author Biography

Bernadette McDonald is former Vice-President, Mountain Culture at The Banff Center in Calgary, Alberta and director of The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivals. She is also the author of "I'll Call You in Kathmandu "and coeditor of "Voices From the Summit" and "Whose Water Is It?" The author of "The Crystal Horizon" and "Free Spirit," Reinhold Messner is often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time.