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In 1959 a nineteen year-old lama, Chgyam Trungpa, led 300 Tibetan men, women and children on a desperate nine-month escape from pursuing Communist troops. Forced to travel where people had never been, they trekked through some of the world's harshest weather. Then, starving and exhausted, they attempted a river crossing under heavy gunfire in flimsy vessels they'd made themselves -- only to face a midwinter climb over the Himalayas.
Ranking with such legendary accounts of courage and survival as Shackleton's 1914-17 Antarctic expedition, it was marked by great compassion and good humor -- and touched by a magic long gone from the Western world. Told in spare, gripping language, enhanced by Chgyam Trungpa's hand-drawn maps and illustrations, the story links to a gallery of images, video footage and satellite imagery that enable readers to follow the stunning route, breathe in the spectacular landscape.
Ranking with such legendary accounts of courage and survival as Shackleton's 1914-17 Antarctic expedition, it was marked by great compassion and good humor -- and touched by a magic long gone from the Western world. Told in spare, gripping language, enhanced by Chgyam Trungpa's hand-drawn maps and illustrations, the story links to a gallery of images, video footage and satellite imagery that enable readers to follow the stunning route, breathe in the spectacular landscape.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780995029309
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 352
- Utgivningsdatum: 2016-03-31
- Förlag: Mountain