Publisher's Synopsis
Read it where people won't mind you laughing out loud! W. E. Bowman's THE ASCENT OF RUM DOODLE, first published in 1956, is the hilarious story of a group of endearing incompetents who set out to conquer the world's highest peak, the celebrated but seldom seen Rum Doodle (40,000-and-a-half feet). Binder the kindly, under-insightful leader of the party, heads a singularly ill-assorted team of comic immortals such as Jungle, the route-finder who cannot find his way to any assembly point, and Wish, the scientist conducting dotty experiments on the boiling point of ice. This great mountaineering parody is very probably the funniest book you will ever read, guaranteed to captivate a new group of devotees.
