Peter Foster is a retired consultant physician. He has been a member of the Alpine Club since 1975 and still climbs in the Alps most summers but his long-held ambition to climb Mont Blanc by one of Graham Brown’s routes up the Brenva Face remains unfulfilled. His interest in mountaineering history goes back to schooldays, when he first started book-collecting, and he has contributed a number of articles to the Alpine Journal. The Uncrowned King of Mont Blanc is his first book.