White Limbo

The best book about mountaineering ever … It should be read by everyone who still understands the spirit of human endeavour, courage and sacrifice and who holds adventure in their heart. Hall has captured the essence of the climb, its preparations, exhilarations and heartbreaks, and set it all poetically against the backdrop of the world’s most beautiful and inhospitable scenery.

Sunday Telegraph

Few climbing books have the power to move the reader emotionally, to transport them to the heart of the struggle to climb a mountain, but this is one of them.

Ed Webster, Rock and Ice

The account reaches new heights in the stark telling of a tale of courage, pain and endurance.

The Sunday Observer

What Lincoln Hall has done is describe with honesty and perception the personal engines of adventure ... It will surely be turned to as an adventure classic in the centuries to come.

Sydney Morning Herald

Beautifully written, Lincoln Hall’s personal account of this great undertaking, in which he was a key figure, immediately ensnared me with its honesty, humanity and realism. He deals unselfconsciously with things normally glossed over in climbing books, indeed in life - fear and the whole gamut of emotions and responses of people under extreme stress. The ascent is a spectacular achievement which pushed the climbers to the limit of their resources; in some cases perilously close. I cannot recall having read a better mountaineering book.

Chris Baxter, Wild

Hall’s book is more satisfying than simply another recounting of a successful climb, mainly because of the strong message one draws from the pages of White Limbo: it is possible to climb an Everest with a small group of friends who have an experience imbued with happiness and mutual respect.

James Wickwire, American Alpine Journal

An irresistible story of adventure.

Publishers Weekly USA