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Blind obsession guides the characters in Arnolds stories to take risks with sometimes disastrous results. The scenarious set out by Arnold will be familiar to many of us who have s et out on a challenge and have to ask some difficult questions along the way. A soloist in Alaska has to pick her way back to civilisation after a pilot fails to pick her up after a succesful summit bid. An expedition on K2 falls apart thanks to an anarchist member who fails to fit in with the team. In Argentina a young mountaineer searches to explain leaving his partner in blizzard on Aconcagua. Arnolds stories are packed full of tension, triumph and tragedy. Briliant adventure writing for a generation fascinated by the mystique of climbing. Show more