A celebration of the magnificent diversity and beauty of indigenous people from remote villages near the Arctic Circle to the rain forest of Sarawak in Borneo. Written as part of the International Year for the World's Indigenous People which took place in 1993.
The author recounts his climb of Mount McKinley in 1967, the first-ever winter ascent, during which a storm dropped temperatures to negative 148 degrees with windchill, gravely endangering the expedition.
