Harry Farthing Libros

Summit - a novel. In the autumn of 1938 Germany's Reichsfuhrer, HeinrichHimmler, is growing frustrated at the British using their regional power inIndia to block passage of an SS expedition to Tibet. Determined to spite them, he plots to steal something the British hold dear and have failed for theseventh time that spring to achieve - a first summitof Mount Everest. Seventy years later, seasoned mountain guide NeilQuinn's ninth visit to the top of the world's highest mountain in the charge of thesixteen-year old son of a Long Island billionaire begins to unravel. As a desperatefight for their lives begins in the freezing air high above Tibet, Quinnstumbles across a clue to a story that questionseverything he thinks he knowsabout the great mountain. When the bitter aftermath of Quinn's disastrous climbturns to violent tragedy in Kathmandu, his discovery pushes him into a relentlessjourney that takes him from the dangerous heights of Everest to the equallytreacherous margins of a new Europe where history hungers to repeat itself. Amidst a rich and diverse cast of characters, eachwith their own reason to possess the mystery of his discovery, Neil Quinn hasto fight, increasingly desperately, for order and the truth. In doing so, he revealsan older story of man and mountain to its shocking conclusion.

Whilst searching a windswept mountainside for the fabled ghost moth fungus, a young Tibetan boy unearths a mysterious relic. Moments later the People's Liberation Army of China marches into his isolated village in the valley below and begins to dismantle an ancient way of life. As the brutal oppression grows, the boy's precious find becomes first a symbol of hope for the villagers then a tool of survival for a people and a religion. It must be preserved at all costs. Sixty years later, mountain guide Neil Quinn is wrapping up his last climb of the season on the highest mountain in Tibet when a transport shortage leaves him stuck in an empty base camp. An earthquake sets off a chain of mysterious events that directly connect the English climber to the ongoing tragedies of a troubled land where the Chinese authorities strive still for complete control. Unsure of precisely what he witnessed yet determined to protect its truth, Quinn returns to Kathmandu and enlists the help of a famous historian of the Himalayas, an erstwhile American journalist, and a cast of locals as enigmatic as that ancient city--each with their own reasons for joining his quest. Manipulation and murder dog their every step as they strive to piece together a complex puzzle from Tibet's tortured past while navigating the treacherous present.