Publisher's Synopsis
WILD IN THE HIMALAYAS
"What I am doing with my life? I am about to turn 40, so I still have the other half left. And I want to live... want to live. A radical change." ".
Francisco quits his profession as an international executive in a multinational Company, flies to Nepal and embarks on a six-month adventure across the Himalayan Mountains. At the end of his trip, he comes across. a dying mountaineer with whom he will share the next eleven days, suffering furious storms and eternal snows. It is a time of reflection, remembering those unique experiences and moments which have made him who he is now..
Adventures, love and erotism, travels and exoticism in a novel based on his own life. From his childhood in post-civil war Spain to his first tastes of freedom as a young man in a bohemian Paris. From his life as a top executive and his great romances to his adventures in Kathmandu, his encounter with drugs and his journey across the Himalayas, tragedies included.
THE AUTHOR
Francisco Po Egea (Zaragoza, Spain). Industrial Engineer and MBA INSEAD (Fontainebleau).Ten years as a high executive in multinationals which he changed to become a globetrotter, writer and photographer. He has published hundreds of articles in the best travel magazines in Spain as well as in the national newspaper El Pais. He is the author of ASIA paso a paso, De Ejecutivo a Trotamundos, Isla Mauricio (Laertes), Grandes Hoteles de España (El Pais/Aguilar) and Los 100 hpteñes más románticos del mundp (Formentera). He has received several awards for his articles: The France Award (3 times), the Véneto Award and the Mexican Silver Feather Award
.THE READERS HAVE SAID:
"The story of an uncommon life, a story of adventures in the high mountains of the Himalayas full of drama, emotions and feelings."
"A new book appears before us, the book of a person who severed his ties with the comforts of a life as a high executive to search for something more, to search for himself."
"An atmosphere is built where the happenings of everyday life, the tenderness behind the gestures, the insecurities, generosity, tragedy and humour, sex, emotion...ultimately the whole spectrum of human emotions, coexist."
