Where the Indus Is Young: Walking to Baltistan

One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. For three months they travelled on foot and by pony along the perilous Indus Gorge and into nearby valleys. Even when beset by crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, an assault by a lascivious Kashmiri, the unnerving melancholy of the Balts, and Rachel's continual probing questions, this formidable traveller retained her enthusiasm for her surroundings and her sense of humour. Book jacket.Dervla Murphy is the author of 'Where the Indus Is Young: Walking to Baltistan', published 1995 under ISBN 9780006548010 and ISBN 0006548016.