This is a fiction thriller novel. Set in post WW 2 in Nepal ( or Tibet?). The western powers want to embarrass China who is now a new Communist State. So to do that the powers at be send a group of specialist Soldiers to go climb on and blow up the face of a mountain which is above a large man made lake. The resultant rockfall would cause a small tidal wave, but large enough to breach the dam that the Chinese had built causing obvious catastrophe. The squad of soldiers are specialist in high alpine training and explosive experts. They enter China from the Nepalese side of the border in the Himalayas. I think that the nationalities of the soldiers are US or British, or a mix. I won't say more otherwise it'll ruin it for you all. It is a pretty good thriller though.I read this book in the early 1980's and I think it was published around about that time, however I can't be sure. It is just as likely to have been published I the 1970's or even the 1960's. I don't know the name of the author. However I am pretty sure the title of the book is something like " The Face of (something, lprobably the name of the mountain they have to blow up).When I read it this book was on paperback.That's all I can tell you for now. Thanks.
The mountain reared above the Kashmiri peaks. Beyond it lay Red China and the vast nuclear complex of Su Tokai: an ominous threat to world peace.Farran was entrusted with a mission: to lead a group of hand-picked soldier-mountaineers on a suicidal climb across the roof of the world to destroy the Chinese nuclear city.