ONE DAY AS A TIGER: ALEX MACINTYRE/ FAST ALPINISM (PB)

Although only twenty-eight years old when he died in 1982 from being hit by a stone on the south face of Annapurna, Alex MacIntyre was already one of the leading figures of British mountaineering. His ascents included hard new routes on Himalayan giants like Dhaulagiri and Changabang and a glittering record of firsts in the Alps and Andes. Yet how Alex climbed was as important as what he climbed. This revelatory memoir by his friend, John Porter, draws an unforgettable picture of a dazzling, argumentative, and exuberant legend.