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''a pleasurable story of exotic and eccentric adventure'
NEW YORK TIMES
"The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountain surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow- covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.
Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked a friend to accompany him on a mountain- climbing expedition in the wild and remote Hindu Kush, in north- eastern Afghanistan. And so they went - although they did stop first for four days of climbing lessons in Wales - becoming the first Englishmen to visit this spectacular region for more than half a century. Newby's frank and funny account of their expedition to what is still amongst the world's most isolated areas is one of the classics of travel writing.
ISBN:9781741795288
