Clouds from both sides – The extraordinary life story of Britain’s foremost woman mountaineer updated with an account of her final tragic but triumphant expedition –

“Internationally renowned mountaineer, Black Belt in martial arts and sound recordist for ‘the highest rilm team in the world’, Julie Tullis was a truly remarkable woman.

After an adventurous early life, she took up climbing the world’s highest peaks at the age of 38, starting with the Peruvian Andes. Later she joined with high altitude film-maker Kurt Diemberger to climb and film Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.

At the age of 45 she became the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre Himalayan mountain, and in 1985 she lived above 20,000 feet for 52 days of the year.

But her ‘mountain of mountains’ was K2. In 1986 she reached the summit and, tragically, died in a storm during the descent. This extraordinary account of her adventures, incorporating the story of her K2 triumph, is an exhilarating testament to her courage.”