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Without Ever Reaching the Summit
Without Ever Reaching the Summit
Oct 9, 2024 12:24 PM

Author:Paolo Cognetti,Stash Luczkiw

Without Ever Reaching the Summit

An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains.

Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook, mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of The Snow Leopard. Written in 1978, Matthiessen's classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer.

Without Ever Reaching the Summit combines travel journal, secular pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti's own bestseller, The Eight Mountains. An investigation into the author's physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth.

'A breath of fresh air for mountain-lovers currently in confinement...The sparse, graceful prose...reflects the barren landscape and the author's joy in paring back the distractions of modern life' Financial Times, Best Books of 2020

Reviews

Fresh and completely engaging ... [Cognetti] has a studied simplicity that is suggestive of a mountaineer's ascetic temperament and the writing also feels perfectly adjusted to the daunting character of Dolpo... [a] captivating travelogue

—— Mark Cocker , Spectator

A breath of fresh air for mountain-lovers currently in confinement, this slim, elegant account follows Cognetti's trek through the remote Dolpo region of northwestern Nepal... The sparse, graceful prose...reflects the barren landscape and the author's joy in paring back the distractions of modern life

—— Tom Robbins , Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

A cracking read.

—— Chris Evans

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—— Gary Newbon

Great read

—— John Barnes

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—— Adrian Durham

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—— Piers Morgan

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Great read.

—— Didi Hamann

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—— Mail on Sunday

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—— Jane Casey, author of The Cutting Place

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Sly satire and some bracingly unpleasant characters make for a fun read

—— Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

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—— Lisa Jewell, Foyles, *Books of the Year*

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—— Alex Gordon, UK Press Syndication

A brilliant thriller

—— Bella

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—— Guardian

An engaging page-turner that will keep you guessing

—— Daily Express

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—— Susan Swarbrick, Herald

The Queen of the modern murder mystery returns with a delicious homage to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

—— RED

Agatha Christie fans will love this ingenious thriller...the pace is fast and furious and the twists satisfying

—— Good Housekeeping

Books shouldn't really be gobbled down like cake but with Ware's there's no other way

—— Metro

Ware's novel is deliciously sly

—— Joan Smith, Sunday Times

This engaging page-turner keeps you guessing

—— Paul Donnelley , Sunday Express

Writing with such honesty is a trademark of [Winn's] style

—— The Marshwood Vale Magazine

'9 new books to read this September'

—— SheerLuxe

Powerful

—— Writers Forum

Beautiful

—— Herald

'Country Life Book of the Week'

—— Country Life

Down to earth yet astonishing . . . touching

—— This England

So beautifully told

—— i

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—— Fabulous Magazine

Sarah Pearse's chilling debut is making waves. The Sanatorium certainly has an eerie, cinematic appeal [...] With whispers of The Shining in setting and The Girl on the Train in pace.

—— Vanity Fair

I absolutely loved The Sanatorium - it gave me all the wintry thrills and chills. It was just wonderful.

—— Lucy Foley, bestselling author of THE HUNTING PARTY and THE GUEST LIST

Genuinely scary and deliciously atmospheric, and one of the best books of 2021, this international bestseller is guaranteed to give you goosebumps.

—— Woman & Home

What a page-turner! Like Agatha Christie crossed with Scandi noir, and doing with Swiss mountains what Jane Harper books do with the Australian outback. Loved it, and can't wait for the next Elin book!

—— Andrea Mara, author of ALL HER FAULT
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