Mountain Trails

Trofim Kozolyov, Ulukitkan and the other people in this book are quite different from any of Jack London's heroes. At the same time they are very much like them; like them in their strength, daring and worldly wisdom; like them in their originality, like them because they are characters drawn from real life. Grigory Fedoseyev, survey engineer, has spent thirty years of his life filling in the blank spaces on the map of the U.S.S.R. He has visited the most remote, unexplored corners of the country - the Khibin Mountains, the Transbaikal region, the valley of the Angara and many other places. In his books, Forest Meetings, In Eastern Sayan, and in Mountain Trails, he tells us all about his companions and his adventures on his exploration trips; he also gives us some fine pictures of stern and rugged Siberia. "What is it that impels us to give up our comforts, what draws us to this cold and savage country where brutal nature still reigns supreme, where man's every step is made only as a result of stubborn struggle? "It is the urge to add something to civilization, the carving for the heroic. "The explorer must never think of the price he will have to pay for even the first crumbs of discovery. What can compare with the joy of looking back from a mountain peak across conquered space, with the valleys laid bare, the forests clearly outlined and the spurs lying below in a disorderly jumble. As one stands on the conquered peak of an unknown range what joy it is to breathe in the cold air wafted up from hollows lying deep down below and to admire the distant view!" -- Grigory FedoseyevFedoseyev, Grigory is the author of 'Mountain Trails' with ISBN 9781589637382 and ISBN 1589637380.