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Tilman, Two Mountains and a River.

Tilman, H.W.

Two Mountains and a River.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1949. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 232 pages. 83 illustrations on 37 plates. 6 maps, including sketch map of the mountainous region of Central Asia dominated by the Hindu Kush, Himalaya and Karakoram ranges Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bump to lower corner of front board. Signs of damp staining to foot of some pages throughout book. Interior otherwise bright and clean and sharp cornered. Summary of book on loose ephemera within book.

Includes, for example, the following: Gilgrit – Arrival and Departure / The Dainyor Nallah / The Kukuay Glacier / Muztagh Ata / The Oxus Source / Sarhad to Ishkashim – Open Arrest / Faizabad and Freedom etc.

Major Harold William “Bill” Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC and Bar, (1898 – 1977) was an English mountaineer and explorer, renowned for his Himalayan climbs and sailing voyages (Wikipedia)
The very readable account of Tilman’s travels and adventures in the mountains. It details his and two Swiss mountaineers’ unsuccessful attempt to scale Rakaposhi (25,550ft) in modern-day Pakistan. Tilman then travelled alone to Chinese Turkistan where he and renowned climber E.E. Shipton, British Consul at Sinkiang and famed mountaineer, unsuccessfully attempted to climb Muztagh Ata. After this, on his way back to India, he detoured through Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor to see the source of the fabled river Oxus (Amu Darya). During his journey through Afghanistan, he was arrested as a spy by Afghan officials and saw a good deal of the country under guarded escort.

 

Tilman, Two Mountains and a River.
Tilman, Two Mountains and a River.
Tilman, Two Mountains and a River.
Tilman, Two Mountains and a River.
Tilman, Two Mountains and a River.