The chilling new ghost story from the author of Dark Matter.
In 1935, young medic
Stephen Pearce travels to India to join an expedition with his brother,
Kits. The elite team of five will climb Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and one of mountaineering's biggest killers. No one
has scaled it before, and they are, quite literally, following in the
footsteps of one of the most famous mountain disasters of all time - the 1907 Lyell Expedition.
Five men lost their lives back then,
overcome by the atrocious weather, misfortune and 'mountain sickness' at such high altitudes. Lyell became a classic British hero when he
published his memoir, Bloody, But Unbowed, which regaled his heroism in the face of extreme odds. It is this book that will guide this new group to get to the very top.
As the team prepare for the epic climb, Pearce's unease about the
expedition deepens. The only other survivor of the 1907 expedition,
Charles Tennant, warns him off. He hints of dark things ahead and tells
Pearce that, while five men lost their lives on the mountain, only four
were laid to rest.
But Pearce is determined to go ahead and
complete something that he has dreamed of his entire life. As they get
higher and higher, and the oxygen levels drop, he starts to see dark
things out of the corners of his eyes. As macabre mementoes of the
earlier climbers turn up on the trail, Stephen starts to suspect that
Charles Lyell's account of the tragedy was perhaps not the full story...
