• "I cannot recall having read a better mountaineering book."
  Chris Baxter, Wild Magazine
• "Few climbing books have the power to move the reader emotionally, to transport them into the heart of the struggle to climb a mountain, but this is one of them."
  Ed Webster, Rock and Ice
• "What Lincoln Hall has done is describe with honesty and perception the personal engines of adventure... It will surely be turned to as an adventure classic in the centuries to come."
  Ben Sandilands, Sydney Morning Herald
• "An irresistible story of adventure."
  Publishers Weekly, USA
• "The book is probably the best book about mountaineering ever. It should be read by everyone who still understands the spirit of human endeavour, courage and sacrifice and who holds adventure in their heart."
  Mark Thorton, Sunday Telegraph

Hard cover published in 1985 by Weldons. Reprinted in 1986 by Weldons and The Mountaineers (Seattle).
Paperback published in 1993 by Simon and Schuster. Updated and reprinted Random House Australia, 2007