Himalayan Pilgrimage: A Study of Tibetan Religion by a Traveller Through Western Nepal

Himalayan Pilgrimage describes a seven months' journey which the author made through the remote Tibetan regions of Western Nepal in 1956. Travelling everywhere on foot with his Nepalese companion, Pasang Khambache Sherpa, who is eulogized in this new edition, Dr. Snellgrove covered more than a thousand miles of mountainous country and crossed some fifteen major passes of between seventeen-and twenty-thousand feet in altitude. The intention of the journey was to learn of the different region...