The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the HimalayasWinner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century. As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas. Teams of mountaineers