<p>'A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn't write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time ? that is why my book is not in chronological order; for everything is of the present, held in the moment when thought captures it.'<br>Kurt Diemberger's Summits and Secrets is a mountaineering autobiography like no other. Writing anecdotally, Diemberger provides an abstract look into his ...