Thin Air by Michelle Paver
About the Book
The Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all.
Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far - and the mountain is not their only foe. As the wind dies, the dread grows. Mountain sickness.
The horrors of extreme altitude. A past that will not stay buried. And sometimes, the truth does not set you free.
About the Author
Michelle Paver is a British novelist and children's writer, best known for her fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe.
Michelle Paver was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in central Africa. Her family settled in Wimbledon, England when she was three. She was educated at the Wimbledon High School. After reading biochemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, she became a partner in a City of London law firm. Her father's death in 1996 prompted her to take a one-year sabbatical, in which she travelled and wrote her first book,Without Charity.
Soon after her return, she resigned from legal practice to concentrate on writing.
