Esau

Esau by Kerr, Philip. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780671019921.

In an ice cave high on a forbidden Himalayan mountaintop, renegade climber Jack Furness unearths a perfectly preserved skull, a fossil that may be the missing link and the scientific discovery of the century. To Berkeley paleoanthropologist Stella Swift, the miraculous find warrants an immediate expedition up the mountains treacherous Fish Tail Peak. But with neighboring Pakistan and India on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, the Pentagon and the GA have their own designs on the remote site. Now, theyre all about to enter a domain where one of natures fiercest creations has thrived for millions of years -- and modern man was never meant to be.