Tamara C. (tamara) reviewed on 6/4/2005 + 78 more book reviews

In an ice cave high on a forbidden Himalayan mountaintop, renegade climber Jack Furness unearths a perfectly preserved skull, a fossil that may be the missing link and the scientific discovery of the century. To Berkely paleoantropologist Stella Swift, the miraculous find warrents and immediate expedition up the mountain's treacherous Fish Tail Peak. But with neighboring Pakistan and India on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, the Pentagon and the CIA have their own designs on the remote site. Now, they're alll about to enter a domain where one of nature's fiercest creations has thrived for millions of years - and modern man was never meant to be.

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