Beginning in 1939, two Austrian mountain climbers undertake a twenty-one-month trek across Tibet to its heartland as they flee imprisonment; includes vivid descriptions of country and culture. Forward by the Dalai Lama.
An account of an Austrian mountian climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.
