My life - a slippery slope

Life and death, guilt and fate – balancing acts of an extreme mountaineer

»The Palm Leaf Library in India completely changed my perspective on life. Suddenly, all the tragic events made sense.« Even as a very young man, Hans Saler scaled the most challenging Alpine rock faces. But everywhere he went, he was followed by a shadow: the death of beloved friends who had once accompanied him. Soon after the death of fellow climber Günther Messner, he travels to India and finds the story of his life to date recorded in the Palm Leaf Library. In this  captivating book, Saler recounts his key adventures with the message that there is far more to life than we can imagine.

Hans Saler, born in Munich in 1947, is an extreme mountaineer, has sailed around the world, and is a true master in the art of living life to the full. He was a member of the Nanga Parbat expedition which led to the tragic death of Günther Messner and which was made into a movie by Joseph Vilsmaier, released on January 14th.