Roger Hubank was born in 1935 and was educated at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Introduced to mountaineering in the early ’60s, he has climbed extensively in Britain and, to a lesser extent, in the Alps. He holds Master’s degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Nottingham and for many years taught English literature at Loughborough University. In 1993, he left the university to write full-time. An earlier mountaineering novel, North Wall, was published by Hutchinson and, in the U.S.A., by the Viking Press. More recently it was included in the anthology One Step in the Clouds, published by Diadem. His novel Hazard’s Way, published by the Ernest Press, won the 2001 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize as well as the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. His most recent novel, North, is based on the tragic 19th-century American "Lady Franklin Bay" expedition.