Title: Tibet's Secret Mountain
Author: Bonington, Chris and Clarke, Charles
Published by: Phoenix
Year: 2000
First published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999
Date reviewed: 09.01
ISBN: 0-75381-000-X

Subtitled “The triumph of Sepu Kangri”, the book chronicles Bonington and Clarke’s reconnaissance of this mountain and their attempt to climb it in 1998. The climbing content is limited – the book is more a travel book about the remote region of Tibet where the mountain lies. Like other Bonington expedition accounts, there is a wealth of detail in the appendices, and Clarke makes a substantial contribution both to the narrative and in his discussions of the medical aspects of travelling and climbing in remote territory. The summit remains unclimbed.