In August 2005 Toma Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new route directly up the middle of the highest mountain face in the world - solo. After six days he was out of food almost out of fuel and frequently buried by avalanches. Three helicopters were poised for a brief break in the weather to pluck him off the mountain. Because of the audacity of the climb the fame of the climber the high risk associated with the rescue and the hourly ...
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In August 2005 Toma Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new route directly up the middle of the highest mountain face in the world - solo. After six days he was out of food almost out of fuel and frequently buried by avalanches. Three helicopters were poised for a brief break in the weather to pluck him off the mountain. Because of the audacity of the climb the fame of the climber the high risk associated with the rescue and the hourly reports posted on his base-camp website the world was watching. Would this be the most spectacular rescue in climbing history? Or a tragic - and very public - death in the mountains? Years before as communism was collapsing and the Balkans slid into chaos Humar was unceremoniously conscripted into a dirty war that he despised where he observed brutal and inhumane atrocities that disgusted him. Finally he did the unthinkable: he left and finally arrived home in what had become a new country - Slovenia. He returned to climbing and within very few years he was among the best in the world. Reinhold Messner among others called him the most remarkable mountain climber of his generation. His routes are seldom repeated; most consider them to be suicidal; yet he often climbs them solo. As this book was being written he achieved the first-ever solo ascent of the east summit of Annapurna. Toma Humar has cooperated with Bernadette McDonald the distinguished former director of the Banff Festival and author of several books on mountaineering to tell his utterly remarkable story.
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