Publisher's Synopsis
This is Dervla Murphy's account of her three month journey to Baltistan, or Little Tibet, a region containing the greatest concentration of high peaks in the world. With her six year old daughter, she walked or rode through five valleys including the perilous Indus Gorge.;She has previously written "Full Tilt" which describes her bicycle journey to India and various other travel books including "Tibetan Foothold", " In Ethiopoa with a Mule", "On a shoestring to Coorg", "Eight Feet in the Andes" and "The Waiting Land".
