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Cover of Straight Up: Himalayan Tales of the Unexpected

Straight Up: Himalayan Tales of the Unexpected

✍ Scribed by Steve Berry


Publisher
Vertebrate Publishing
Year
2015
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Born in the foothills close to the Himalaya Steve Berry had from an early age an urge to become a traveller, an adventurer, an explorer, and until the age of thirty-eight years he tried hard to satisfy two opposing forces. Half of him wanted to find a satisfactory career path while the other half wanted to be free and specifically explore the Himalaya. In the end he found a compromise to satisfy both needs. In 1987 with his climbing friend Steve Bell he founded Himalayan Kingdoms, a travel company specialising in trekking and expedition holidays. This book is a collection of stories from his early expeditions to the Himalaya prior to 1987. There are tales of encounters with bears, escapes from avalanches, summit successes and failures, love stories mystical connections, Himalayan storms, near death accidents, raw travel across the Indian sub-continent, and grapples with bureaucracy. It is told warts and all. It starts with tales of youthful naivety in the mountains of Himachal...


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