Paperback. Pub Date: November 1988 Pages: 384 in Publisher: Grand Central Publishing. Two Undaunted Men Frank Wells was the head of a major motion picture studio Dick of Bass had made his fortune as an energy of the resort entrepreneur In middle age. Both men left behind home. family. and successful careers to share an impossible dream. Seven Unconquered Summits The challenge: be the first to climb the highest mountain on each of seven continents. from McKinley to Kilimanjaro to Everest. The obstacles: many and merciless. from ice storms to illness to a measurement question that threatened to make their record-eaking expedition a sham. The prize: the sheer. exhilarating triumph of standing at the top of every continent on earth.