A review by storytellersworld
Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood

2.0

For a book on the Himalayas, this one is flimsy and superfluous. It seems the journey was undertaken only to write the book and not the other way. The stories and anecdotes he shares are cliche, without any real depth to them. And the fact that he calls illegal and unplanned development in Kathmandu which led to massive loss during the earthquake of 2015 'man's triumph over nature' is naive and ill-informed.
I labored my way through the book on most days, always wondering if it would be worth it. Turns out it wasn't.