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The Berber goatherd who daily visited our Atlas base camp in 1965 (Chapter 1)

Berber houses cling to the hillsides like swallows’ nests (Chapters 1 and 2)

Young, fit and fearless, Michael Adams balances on a pinnacled ridge at almost 4000m in the Atlas Mountains (Chapter 1)

Mules make backpacking unnecessary in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains (Chapter 2)

Left foot in France, right foot in Spain – Keith Sweeting scrambles along a ridge leading to Pic de la Mine (Chapter 6)

Enjoying solitude and pristine early-season conditions on the 3308m Pico de la Maladeta (Chapter 6)

Windswept in the Pyrenees – Alan Payne and I first shared a rope in the Atlas Mountains in 1965 and subsequently made numerous expeditions to the Alps, Pyrenees and Himalaya over the next 40 years (photo: Peter Smith)

The Arrémoulit refuge nestles in a Pyrenean landscape of granite and water (Chapter 11)

Hugh Walton emerging from a hidden crevasse on the Vignemale’s glacier (Chapter 16)

Dawn light on the north face of the Vignemale, one of the most imposing of Pyrenean walls (Chapter 16)

With the ultimate Pyrénéistes, Pierre (left) and Jean Ravier at Tuzaguet in 2006 (Chapter 19) (photo: Michèle Ravier)

Piz Bernina and Piz Roseg in summer – very different from a mid-winter moonlight view seen from a camp on Piz Corvatsch (Chapter 20)

Glemmtal guide Fredi Bachmann, with the Hohe Tauern as a backdrop (Chapter 23)

The ladder route to the Pas de Chèvres above the Cheilon glacier (Chapter 26)

The approach to the Mountet hut used to cross the Zinal glacier below the Ober Gabelhorn (Chapter 30)

At the head of the Gasterntal, Roland Hiss studies the ice cliffs of the Kanderfirn (Chapter 33)

Shortly after dawn, the massive southwest or Yalung face of Kangchenjunga is revealed in all its glory (Chapter 47)

Local guide Hörst Kaschnig shows the way on a via ferrata in the Kamnik-Savinja mountains of Slovenia (Chapter 45)

Alan Payne in the Gokyo valley – our early treks in the Himalaya, using simple teahouses for accommodation, led through some memorable landscapes

Group treks rely for their success on the strength and goodwill of porters who carry the loads; they are the unsung heroes of the Himalaya

In the Langtang village of Syabru an old man watches the world go by (Chapter 51)

The four Dolpo women whose voices echoed a ‘song of the hidden land’ (Chapter 59)

A typical Sherpa house in Phortse at the mouth of the Gokyo valley (Chapter 61)

Ploughing with buffalo – an iconic post-harvest scene in the Himalayan foothills

On the edge of Khumjung, a solitary chorten, prayer flags and mani stones direct attention towards Ama Dablam

The silent Bhutanese woman who became my shadow on the way to Cheri Gompa (Chapter 63)

Cheri Gompa stands high above the Thimpu Chhu in the Bhutanese foothills (Chapter 63)

This makeshift bridge took us across a tributary of the Buri Gandaki on my most recent trek around Manaslu (Chapter 66)

My long-time friend, Kirken Sherpa (second from left), poses with our group of friends after crossing the Larkya La on the Manaslu Circuit (Chapter 66)

Figures in silhouette prepare to bivouac by a cold lake on Corsica’s Monte Rotondo (Chapter 68)

A symbolic model ark contains the summit book on Turkey’s Mount Ararat – sadly, Noah’s signature does not appear in it (Chapter 73)

Mehmut’s yayla on the slopes of Mount Ararat (Chapter 73)

In benevolent mood, Huascaran looks down on the memorial garden where once stood the town of Yungay (Chapter 74)

The team of Quechua Indians and their burros that accompanied our journey around Peru’s Cordillera Blanca (Chapter 75)