Peter Steele: 3 books

In And Far Away Peter Steele tells of his and his wife Sarah’s 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...

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....

In Sarah: A Love Story, Peter Steele tells the story, in letters to his good friend Robert, of the last year of his wife Sarah’s 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...