The Ice Soldier: A Novel by Paul Watkins, a review from Esquire by Anna Godbersen.
"It's a good thing that William Bromley, the narrator of Paul Watkins's novel The Ice Soldier, has a grand obsession, otherwise his life would be all tweedy tea-times and crumbling books and other not very dramatic, Anglo activities. But a grand obsession he has (or had), and its name is mountaineering." Read the entire Esquire review.