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In March 1945, a smart but rowdy
British officer named Tom Harrisson parachuted into the Borneo Highlands and
set about organizing an army of headhunters to battle the Japanese invaders.
He knew the difficult country a little, having been there on a scientific
expedition before the war, but now, "shepherded to the island by the
world's most lucrative sponsor, the Dogs of War," he had to learn its
secrets, and quickly.
In 1958, Harrisson wrote a memoir, World Within, chronicling his time on the
island. Looking for new places to explore, Wyoming rock-scrambler Sam Lightner
and his German climbing partner happened on Harrisson's book, studied it closely,
and, with four other "dirt-bag" climbers, went off to Borneo to
find the peak of their dreams in the cloud forests, in country that maps "tinted
gray and labeled 'All Elevations Unknown'." Battling unusual elements--including
having to "cough up the larvae of echinococcosus" and dodge giant
snakes, to say nothing of the area's still-active headhunting bands--they
found it, scaled the spire called Batu Lawi, and lived to tell the tale. Their
exploits form the heart of Lightner's good-natured narrative, which draws
on Harrisson's own account of jungle warfare to become a work of history as
much as outdoors travel. Climbers, students of World War II, and armchair
adventurers alike will enjoy his report. First-time author Lightner, a well-known
rock climber, presents a memorable if somewhat problematic travel-adventure
memoir of his 1999 climb up Borneo's Batu Lawi, an all-but-unknown peak in
a rough jungle. He approaches the peak armed only with regional maps, none
of which show the mountain, and a book called World Within, a travel memoir
published in 1958 by Tom Harrisson, a British officer who parachuted onto
the mountain during WWII to establish an Allied base. Sam Lightner, Jr., combines
two tales of adventure, one historic and the other modern-day in his page-turner
. . . With its rich sense of place and history, All Elevations Unknown offers
a surprisingly fresh twist to an adventure-climbing tale. In the spring of
1999, armed with little more than a description from a book and a map labeled
“all elevations unknown,” Sam Lightner and his German rock-climbing
buddy, Volker, found themselves deep in the jungles of Borneo on a mission
to climb a mountain that was only rumored to exist. What little they knew
about the mountain they had learned from the memoirs of Major Tom Harrisson,
a British World War II soldier who in 1945 had been assigned the near-impossible
mission of parachuting blindly into the thick Borneo rainforest–where
the natives had a grisly habit of cutting off heads–to try to reclaim
the island for the Allies. A captivating, utterly original combination of
travel adventure memoir and historical re-creation, All Elevations Unknown
charts Lightner’s exhilarating and at times harrowing quest to ascend
the mountain Batu Lawi in the face of leeches, vipers, and sweat bees, and
to keep his team together in one of the earth’s most treacherous uncharted
pockets. Along the way, he reconstructs a fascinating historical narrative
that chronicles Tom Harrisson’s adventures there during the war and
illuminates an astonishing piece of forgotten World War II history. Rife with
suspense and vivid detail, the two intertwining tales open up the island of
Borneo, its people, and its history in a powerful, unforgettable way, taking
adventure writing to new heights.
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