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• The Snow Leopard

  Peter Matthiessen

  
  
   

• Nepal Himalaya

  H.W. Tilman

  
  
   

• K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain

  Jim Curran

  
  
   

• The Buddhist Himalayas: People, Faith and Nature

  Matthieu Ricard

  
  
   

• Short Walks in Shangri-La (Summersdale travel)

  Peter Francis Browne

  
  
   

• The Ascent of Everest

  John Hunt

  
  
   

• The Turquoise Mountain: Brian Blessed on Everest

  Brian Blessed

  
  
   

• Kingdoms of Experience

  Andrew Greig

  
  
   

• My quest for the Yeti: confronting the Himalayas' deepest mystery

  Reinhold Messner

  
  Reinhold Messner, the famed Austrian alpinist, has spent much of three decades climbing in the Himalayas--and, as it turns out, looking along the way for evidence of the yeti, the legendary, supposedly humanoid inhabitant of the high mountains. Messner writes of having encountered "an apparition" at the Tibetan headwaters of the Mekong River. Remembering a photograph of a mysteriously shaped footprint that Eric Shipton had taken years earlier, Messner began to collect evidence--tracks, eerie cries and whistles, fleeting glimpses--of the fabled abominable snowman. With that mounting evidence, he writes, "The mountains that I knew so well now seemed smothered in mystery." Of the yeti's existence, the climber has no doubt; his pages are taken up by his quest for plausible answers as to the creature's real identity. He writes of possibilities that many scientists have discounted--for instance, that the yeti may be a kind of ape, or perhaps a long-diverged species of bear--dismissing knee-jerk unbelievers with an impatient wave, and turning in a lively natural history of an unknown being.

  With this memoir, Messner is in good literary company--Peter Matthiessen and Slavomir Rawicz, among others, have written of high-mountain encounters with yetis--and in fine form. Readers with an interest in cryptozoology and mountaineering alike will delight in his findings. --Gregory McNamee

  
   

• Trekking in the Indian Himalaya (Lonely Planet Walking Guides)

  Garry Weare

  
  
   

• Kingdoms Beyond the Clouds: Journeys in Search of the Himalayan Kings

  Jonathan Gregson

  
  
   

• Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary

  Hugh Thomson

  
  
   

• Trekking in the Indian Himalaya (Lonely Planet Walking Guides)

  Garry Weare

  
  
   

• Coronation Everest

  Jan Morris

  
  
   

• Trekking in the Himalayas

  Stefano Ardito

  
  
   

• You Are a Brave Man: Kiwi Odyssey in the Himalayas

  Elizabeth Harding

  
  
   

• Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge (Travel)

  Andrew Greig

  
  
   

• Intimate Glimpses of Mysterious Tibet and Neighbouring Countries

  G.E.O. Knight

  
  
   

• Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab

  Charles Hugel

  
  
   

• Kashmir and Kashghar: A Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74

  H.W. Bellew