The Last Climb A Novel of Suspense Author:Thomas H. Cosgrove Jim Bridgman is no stranger to battling for his survival. As a world-renowned mountain climber, he's made a career out of the struggle. Jim came to Peru searching for a final triumph, to take on an unclimbed, perhaps unclimbable mountain in the Andes. But this time, the mountain wins: His team is wiped out by an avalanche.The thought of returnin... more »g home is unbearable, so Jim accepts what he thinks is a simple job as a guide. He heads back to the mountain country and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a war that's been raging for 400 years. It's an invisible war, Spanish landowners crushing the last vestiges of the native culture: the indigenes who now stand on the brink of total annihilation. Desperately, they are fighting back with little more than machetes and four centuries' anger.Survival and nature are two things Jim understands, and he shows the indigenes how to use their land as a weapon. As their fight becomes his own, he agrees to lead another expedition to the mountaintop -- this time accompanied only by an inexperienced indigene climber. Now Jim is climbing not for a personal triumph but to force the world to see what's going on here and to offer a symbol of hope for all those below.Author Thomas Cosgrove draws upon several harrowing escapes from his own climbing career to create a riveting sense of realism in The Last Climb. It is a story about all kinds of survival, packed with old-fashioned adventure and timely political intrigue.« less