Where the Indus is young - Midwinter in Baltistan (Paperback, New Ed)

One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter Rachel decided to explore "Little Tibet," a place high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. For three months, they traveled on foot and by pony along the perilous Indus Gorge and into the nearby valleys. Even when beset by crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, the unnerving melancholy of the Balts, and Rachel's continual probing questions, this formidable traveler retained both her enthusiasm and her sense of humor. Hair-raising, gloriously subjective, and with the quirky vitality of fiction, the resulting account is a true classic of travel writing.