Enigma Himalaya

Year: 2010 Pages: 244 Invention, exploration, adventure. The Himalayas stretch for 2400 km. In the heart of Asia. Theater of exploration throughout the 19th century, the great mountain range was a destination for travelers and merchants, adventurers and naturalists, topographers and scholars whose incredible stories are narrated in the pages of this book. The arrival of mountaineers at the end of the 19th century began the climbing of its highest peaks: from 1950 to 1964 the peaks of all 14 of its 8000s were reached. A titanic undertaking of which Kurt Diemberger, who gives us an intense and emotional story, is partly the protagonist. But on the "roof of the world", where populations rich in spirituality and traditions live, there are still countless secrets to discover and walls to conquer.