My favourite bookThe White Spider by Heinrich Harrer, which describes the first successful ascent of the Eiger-Nordwand. It makes you want to travel to Switzerland and get a telescope to focus on the death wall, the north face of the Eiger. The book I’m readingAnnapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Metre Peak by Maurice Herzog. With lockdown, for obvious reasons, I’m finding great escape in reading about other people’s great escapes and some of the best books are by the pioneering explorers. SponsoredThe book I wish I had writtenMiddlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot.

Source: The Times March 27, 2021 00:00 UTC