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Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary |
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(Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004) |
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‘A welcome escape to somewhere
rare and wonderful.’ Sunday
Times In
his most recent book, Hugh Thomson describes an expedition to a ‘lost world’
in the Himalaya. The Nanda Devi
Sanctuary in the Indian Himalaya has one extraordinary geographical feature.
A ring of 20,000 ft peaks, connected by massive cliff-walls, effectively seal
off the great mountain at their centre, Nanda Devi, the highest peak in India
at over 25,000 ft. There is a high circular valley, like a moat, between the
surrounding mountains and Nanda Devi: the famous Nanda Devi Sanctuary. Until
1934 this Sanctuary had never been penetrated by human beings. |