Without Ever Reaching the Summit by Paolo Cognetti

In this Covid year, when most of us have been stuck at home not going anywhere it’s a pleasure travel with Paolo Cognetti on this secular pilgrimage through the Himalayan mountains. A book for nature lovers, experienced climbers and even armchair travelers. Browse and buy through our bookshop store or order through our website.

Without Ever Reaching the Summit by Paolo Cognetti
Hardback RRP £10.99

An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains

Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook, mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of The Snow Leopard. Written in 1978, Matthiessen's classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer.

Without Ever Reaching the Summit combines travel journal, secular pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti's own bestseller, The Eight Mountains. An investigation into the author's physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth.

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