Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, the author of Walking the Nile encounters beauty and danger as he crosses the Himalayas on foot. Ex-paratrooper Levison Wood's exhilarating memoir—the 2016 Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book of the Year—recounts in detail what he found along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan, the Line of Control between Pakistan and India, the disputed territories of Kashmir, the lost kingdom of Bhutan, and the earthquake-ravaged lands of Nepal. Over six months, Wood and his guides trekked 1700 grueling miles across the roof of the world, where they met nomads, shamans, extremists, and even the Dalai Lama himself.