Higher Than Everest: Memoirs of a Mountaineer (H.B)

This is the inspiring true story of one of India’s most iconic mountaineers – Major HPS Ahluwalia, who was a member of India’s first successful expedition to Everest. But the story does not end with this spectacular achievement. This is where the real story begins – for the struggle to climb Everest was but a preparation for an even bigger challenge that lay ahead. Just four months after his success, Major Ahluwalia suffered a grievous spinal injury in the Indo-Pak war of 1965. In a man of lesser courage, this could have destroyed his spirit, but in Major Ahluwalia’s case, it ignited a deep passion. This is the story of how he fought ‘the impossible fight’ towards rehabilitation and how he achieved the ‘seemingly unattainable dream’ of building India’s first world-class Spinal Injuries Centre. This is ultimately the story of how Major Ahluwalia conquered a Summit even higher than Mount Everest, the Summit of the Mind.