Endurance - A Novel About Life and Death

The stars went out and I fell. Like something come alive, the rope lashed violently against my face,. The story of a Japanese intelligence officer who survived for 29 years in the Philippine jungle - unaware that the war was over. American mountaineer Aaron Lee Rolston whose hand was trapped between a dislodged boulder while he was climbing in Utah in 2003. Under pioneers and mavericks appears Donald Johansson's lighting upon the fossilite skeleton of Lucy. It includes two dramas of great intensity in which the rescue operations were among the most complex ever undertaken.