Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary by Hugh Thomson

Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary

Hugh Thomson

134 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced
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Surrounded by 20,000 foot peaks which effectively seal off the mountain at their center, the Nanda Devi Sanctuary was virtually impenetrable. But in 1934 Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman made the first of their great Himalayan expeditions by forcing a...

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