Join us Fri., Aug. 26, 12 pm for lunch with Harry Farthing at High Cotton (199 East Bay St.). Harry will talk and sign copies of his new book Summit (Hawkridge, hb., 494 pp., $30).
Tickets are $31 for three-course lunch and talk or $61 for lunch and book. Click here for tickets.
Summit is an action-packed mountaineering adventure in which a mysterious discovery leads to breathtaking revelations about the world’s highest peak. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Summit follows two climbers across two continents as their stories intertwine, culminating in one final push for the top of the world.
An Englishman born in Lynton, North Devon, Harry Farthing has had a lifelong interest in exploration, archaeology, and world history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has travelled widely to extreme environments such as the Sahara Desert, the Himalaya, the Amazon, and the Arctic North. He is an experienced mountaineer who has climbed Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn in the Alps, Mount McKinley in Alaska, Shishapangma (the highest mountain in Tibet), and even Mount Everest itself.
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