Sam McGrath has always rejected his fathers's love of mountaineering. Now, at a low point in his life, he sees the chance of escape. Fiercely attracted to a young Canadian doctor he meets in a stormbound airport, he decides on impulse to follow her as she goes to be expedition doctor for an attempt on Everest. Finch Buchanan does not respond. An independent woman with a determination to prove herself, she is in love with Al Hood, the Welsh mountaineer who will lead the expedition. They met once, five years previously, and Finch has never forgotten him. But Al is married - to the mountains as much as to the another woman. as the group of climbers set out to conquer the highest peak, their beautiful and threatening surroundings isolate them and the physical and emotional demands test each character to the utmost. At the heart of the story, enclosed by the iron ring of peaks, is the combative, passionate and tragic relationship between Finch and the two men. Two men driven by different demons, and a woman with her own history.
- ISBN10 0434004618
- ISBN13 9780434004614
- Publish Date 2 March 2000 (first published 24 February 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint William Heinemann Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English