The story of how Somerset author and poet, James Crowden, travelled up the Frozen River in the Northern Himalaya is the subject of a new book. Robert Twigger has travelled the pages. James Crowden was a young army officer with…
He sought silence, solitude and a tremendous challenge in the winter snows of the high Himalaya and now poet James Crowden draws us into that life-changing world in his terrific new book, The Frozen River. At the age of 22,…
An adventure that was undertaken by a man of the Westcountry on the other side of the world has Martin Hesp enthralled. John Buchan of 39 Steps fame once wrote a book called Salute To Adventurers - which is a…
"I have seldom read a travel book where the narrator is so absent. Instead, he acts as a transparent lens that gathers all that fierce Zanskari winter light and illuminates the primary colors of both the place and its people.…