Tomaz Humar

The inspirational and sometimes heart-breaking story of Tomaž Humar, who fled civil war in Yugoslavia and became one of the world’s greatest, and most controversial, mountaineers. Probably best known for his solo attempt of the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat in 2005, Humar has cooperated with the author to tell his utterly remarkable story from deserting from the army, to his desperate journey across the ravages of the war-torn Balkans, avoiding starvation and snipers bullets, to what would become his new home in Slovenia - Reinhold Messner has called him ‘the most remarkable mountain climber of his generation’.