As told with Peter Potterfield, award-winning mountaineering journalist, Viesturs narrates his successful quest to climb the 14 highest mountains of the world, those peaks above 8, 000 meters in height. Viesturs & Potterfield take readers along on some of the successes & failures of Viesturs` quest, including five separate ascents of Mount Everest (the tallest peak in the world) & the sheer triumph of the final two summits. The riveting tales of Viesturs` mountaineering adventures are illustrated by Viesturs` own stunning photographs, between 85 & 100 images, a photographic collection that is the primary focus of the book, a collection that shows like never before the deadly beauty & haunting menace of the Himalaya. Captions explain each photograph & its setting, describing both the heartbreaking tragedy Viesturs has faced & the ineffable joy he has experienced while striving at the limits of human endurance.