Ranked 16 out of 100 on National Geographic Adventure's list of top 100 adventure books of all time
Lonely Planet Publications
September 1998
On Sale: September 1, 1998
260 pages ISBN: 0864426046 EAN: 9780864426048 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked an old 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.
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