Robert Macfarlane's is the most interesting of the crop of books published to mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of everest. Macfarlane is both a mountaineer and a scholar. Consequently we get more ...Robert Macfarlane's is the most interesting of the crop of books published to mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of everest. Macfarlane is both a mountaineer and a scholar. Consequently we get more than just a chronicle of climbs.