Eric Newby <br/><br/>
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush 

 -  Lonely Planet 
 - 272 pages 
<br/><br/> The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountains 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 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 mor ethan 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780864426048 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>39291569 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>68091678 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geography & Travel
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS374.H5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915.81