PETER STEELE

In Over the Hills, Peter Steele recounts the story of his turbulent childhood in England and his student years at Cambridge University. There he learned mountaineering and medicine, culminating in his selection as medical officer to the ill-fated 1971 International Expedition to Mount Everest.Before settling down to practice medicine in the Yukon, Steele spent years travelling the world with his young family. After a life filled with adventure and challenges, including working as a flying doctor in Labrador, the retired doctor is now working on the next installment of his memoirs. About the author:Retired doctor and mountaineer Peter Steele was born in England. He lived and travelled in Nepal, Bhutan, and the Sahara before settling in Whitehorse, Yukon with his family in 1975. He has written several books on his travels, a medical guide for backcountry adventurers, and two biographies: Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond and The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid life of George Back, Franklins Lieutenant.

In a lifetime of travelling the world on mountain-climbing adventures, Peter Steele has written about his beloved mountains and some of the men who shared his passion. But the stories that are closest to his heart are the ones closest to his home. These 70-odd pieces reflect over half a century of writing, especially during his time in Atlin and the Yukon.

Both a travelogue and a love story, Meanderings is full of adventures, chance meetings, old friends and new. The book takes the reader through Asia, Africa and Patagonia, and every page shines through with a genuine love of land and people. These exotic lands, known so well by the writer and his wife, beguile and frustrate in turn. Meanderings is the latest tale of intrepid traveller Peter Steeles travels, told with wit and beautiful prose. Contains photographs.

In Sarah: A Love Story, Peter Steele tells the story, in letters to his good friend Robert, of the last year of his wife Sarahs life. While both Peter and Sarah knew the end was near, neither one allowed this knowledge to prevent them from living as fully and joyfully as possible.At the same time, Sarah: A Love Story is a fierce portrayal of a man facing the imminent loss of his best friend, lover, and partner.

In And Far Away Peter Steele tells of his and his wife Sarahs 11,000-mile drive from England overland to Nepal to work in a hospital in Kathmandu. From there they trekked into little-visited West Nepal where Steele climbed a small mountain and carried out a life-saving surgical operation in a Tibetan tent. They worked in Labrador running the Grenfell flying doctor service. Then the Steele family spent six months crossing Bhutan making a survey of endemic goitre in that remote country.In 1971 Steele was doctor on the ill-fated International Himalayan Expedition to attempt climbing the South West face of Mount Everest. Subsequently he and his ten-year-old son, Adam, hitch-hiked round northern South America.Finally, Steele decided to abandon his nascent career as a surgeon, and he and his family emigrated to the Yukon where he worked in family medicine.