Versante Sud La Montagna dei Folletti alpine climbing novel

The Mountain of the Goblins by Tony Howard is the gripping tale of the first, dramatic ascent of the highest rock face in Europe, the legendary Troll Wall in Norway, completed in 1965 by a group of young English climbers. This book, written shortly after the feat and recently rediscovered, catapults the reader into the heart of one of the greatest adventures in British mountaineering, a battle against time and the wild nature fought amidst rain, snow, and avalanches. The narrative describes not only the challenge to the limits of human endurance but also the unexpected competition with a rival group of Norwegians, in a race to the summit followed by media from around the world and turned into legend.