Mountaineering, Adventure and adventurers 

Extraordinary zest for living plus a passion for mountain climbing have taken Pat and Paul Petzoldt to the far corners of the world. Equally, at home on a mountain crag or at an embassy party, this adventurous young couple has shared a life more thrilling than the wildest dreams of fiction. Pat knew nothing about mountain climbing when she first met Paul on the University of Wyoming campus. But she did know he was the most attractive man she had ever met, and she was crestfallen when, soon afterward, he lefft the university. However, there were constant letters, telling first of Paul's mountain-climbing meeting with the Dean of Windsor, and later of his year as the clergyman's guest in Windsor Castle! In England, Paul met the present Duke of Windsor, brought a second-hand bicycle and pedalled off to Switzerland where he nonchalantly climbed the Matterhorn twice in one day.
Son after this, Paul came home to America and Pat. They were married almost at once and embarked on a series of astonishing adventures; among them inhabiting a haunted house near wartime Washington, conducting a guiding and mountain0climbing school in Wyoming's Tetons, and living in Mexico on a shoestring. Paul was on the first American expedition to tackle and almost conquer Mt. Godwin Austen (he favulous K2 of the Himalayas), and Pat later joined him in an exotic religious colony in Punjab, controlled by a sinister, mystical Master. Here they narrowly escaped death at the hands of hostile fanatics.
On Top of the World tells of these hair-raising Petzoldt adventures and many more. A vigorous, full-blooded story, it introduces two courageous people whose stamina and joie de vivre enable them to take a rugged life in their stride.