Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World

For anyone who has done high altitude trekking or climbing in the Himalayas, this is a great historical review of the country. The history is rich and the author is at times, incredibly funny. I wish the maps were larger, but they are adequate. The history of the geology there is also interesting and adequate. The author's plea in the last chapter to save the ecology of some of the last wild areas reminds me of the wish/plan of the Dalai Lama to declare all of Tibet a a national park. Reading is more satisfactory if the reader brings some prior reading/experience in the Himalayas to it.