The Ascent Of Rum Doodle

From the Introduction by Bill Bryson "I just love this book. Everything about it is nearly perfect...hugely enjoyable and brilliantly sustained." An outrageous account of the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, THE ASCENT OF RUM DOODLE was first published in 1956 and quickly became a mountaineering classic. It is the hilarious story of a group of endearing incompetents who set out to conquer the world's highest peak. Binder the kindly, under-insightful leader of the party, heads a singularly ill-assorted team of comic immortals such as Jungle, the route-finder who cannot find his way to any assembly point, and Wish, the scientist conducting dotty experiments on the boiling point of ice.