"Rockin' the Himalayas": The Scottish mountain punk Alex MacIntyre and his time. In the autumn of 1982, a single fist-sized rock broke loose high up on the massive south face of Annapurna and struck the 28-year-old Scot Alex MacIntyre. The climbing world was robbed of one of its greatest talents. MacIntyre was an "enfant terrible" of the climbing scene and at the same time its visionary: a kind of punk who, nonconformist, self-assured, and cheeky, disregarded traditional rules and realized what had previously been unimaginable with his first ascents in the Alps, the Andes, and on the Himalayan giants. His actions were trendsetting and legendary. His tragic death at a young age certainly contributed to the MacIntyre myth. "Better a Tiger than a Sheep" is the German licensed edition of the award-winning work, translated by alpine historian and Himalayan specialist Jochen Hemmleb.