Thrones of Gods

“I met Marek years ago. He told me he was off to the mountains to climb a hill. When I met him again, I found out that the mountains were the Himalayas and the hill was Mount Everest.” An incredible and personal account from one of the Czech Republic's leading mountaineers about the beauty of high mountains, success, and the power of friendship in extreme situations, but above all about the self-preservation instinct in the fight for survival on expeditions to the world's highest mountains. Although he is one of the world's best, he recounts his adventures through the eyes of a wide-eyed child.