Mountains and a Monastery

Description

Published by Geoffrey Bles, London, 1958, 1st UK Edition, No D/w, cloth dull faded, Good.   Account of pre-1958 travels of the author and his wife who traversed the mountainous desert province of Spiti on the borders of Tibet, provided accounts of village life and the influence of monasteries in the area, and successfully scaled a number of previously unclimbed mountains of around 20,000 feet in the Ratang Gorge area of Spiti.