The world Dad loved best was built of stone and sheathed in ice. And if there was anyone who rubbed Dad’s nose in the lowland trappings of family, it was Gary Hemming, a charismatic wanderer who would later receive his own biography, The Beatnik of the Alps. The relationship between Gary and Dad was as stormy as the mountains they shared, and as enduring as most marriages—an institution Gary despised. (First paragraph of Chapter 3, The Eiger Obsession.)