Himalaya, A Literary Homage to Adventure, Meditation, and Life on the Roof of the World

**Intimate, exhilarating writings on adventure, meditation, and life in the captivating wildness of the Himalayan Mountains—with contributions from Amitav Ghosh, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Peter Matthiessen, and more.**

For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which people test themselves. Others find refuge and tranquility in the mountains, a place where they can seek their true selves, perhaps even God. Over millennia, the mountains have cradled civilization itself and nurtured teeming, irrepressible life. With over thirty essays, this exhilarating anthology offers a dazzling range of voices that reveal accounts of great ascents and descents—from reflecting on a deadly avalanche to searching for a snow leopard and enjoying the simple pleasure of riding a handcar down a railway track. These diverse writings bring to life the spirit of the Himalaya in an unparalleled panorama.

Contributors include:

Amitav Ghosh

Mark Twain

Rabindranath Tagore

Peter Matthiessen

Edmund Hillary

Aleister Crowley

Andrew Harvey

Vicki Mackenzie

Sarat Chandra Das

H. A. Giles (Trans.)

Jahangir

Sven Hedin

Frank S. Smythe

Anil Yadav

Jinasena

Arundhathi Subramaniam

Dharamvir Bharati

Swami Vivekananda

Rahul Sankrityayan

Francis Younghusband

Ruskin Bond

Jemima Diki Sherpa

Kirin Narayan

Jawaharlal Nehru

Abdul Wahid Radhu

Jim Corbett

Bill Aitken

Hridayesh Joshi

Dom Moraes

Manjushree Thapa