On the edge of civilization, the edge of madness, the edge of extinction – the most extreme sport of all....

Paris is so excited. Her uncle Franklin is taking her with him on his trip to Himalayas. They're going to all places that the tourists aren't allowed.

But when Tahr, a boy monk, staggers into their camp with news of a mythical creature, events take a sinister turn. Franklin is a man with a vision, something dark and strange. Just how strange, Paris is about to find out .....

 

Philip Gross was born in Cornwall in 1952, the son an Estonian Wartime refugee and a Cornish. Schoolmaster's daughter. He has won several prizes for his poetry and his collection The wasting Game was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1998. He is Professor of Greative Writing at Glamorgan University and lives in Bristol. The Lastling is his third novel for Oxford University.