Magician's Glass. Character and Fate: Eight Essays on Climbing and the Mountain Life, Paperback/Ed Douglas

The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing, including the controversy of the first ascent of Cerro Torre and Ueli Steck's disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna.