Road to Katmandu

“… is the story of a recent journey overland from Istanbul to Katmandu, made by the author, the young journalist Patrick Marnham. It is a vivid account of the incidents and people met with on the road; the story of those who reached the village capital of Nepal, and others who lost their way, or gave up an died.
This journey – over three and a half thousand miles from the fringes of Europe to the Himalayas – has been attempted by thousands of young people from all over Europe and America in the last few years. They set out with very little money and no transport, and this book is the first description of the road they travel and an attempt to explain why this journey and the country at the end of it came to mean what it did for those who travelled there …”