Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary
SPECIFICATION: Publisher : Hachette India By : Hugh Thomson Cover : Paperback Language : English Edition : 2017 Pages : 152 pages Weight : 160 g Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm ISBN-10 : 9789351951964 ISBN-13 : 978-9351951964 DESCRIPTION: The fascinating story of a journey to the source of a legend – the Nanda Devi Sanctuary – which has been described by explorers as ‘more inaccessible than the North Pole’.Until 1934 the hidden valley of the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, on the border between India and Tibet, had never been entered by human beings. Surrounded by 20,000-foot peaks, which effectively seal off Mt Nanda Devi at their centre, it remains virtually impenetrable even today.Many early explorers, drawn there by the idea of a ‘lost Eden’ in the Himalaya, could only gaze with longing at the Sanctuary – until the ‘terrible-twins’ of pre-Second World War mountaineering, Eric Shipton and Bill Tillman, solved the problem by forcing an entrance up a precipitous river gorge. Subs