Awarded Hawthornden Prize, 1934. On the northwestern frontier of India, Conway was a passenger on a plane taken over by a native pilot and never heard of again. What Conway found in ShangriLa makes the story.

You and your best friend, Carlos, have traveled to Nepal in search of the Yeti. Carlos arrived three days before you and has not been heard from since. Do you search for him or strike out on your own? What do you make of the strange not he left for you? Could there be other dangers and other wonders in th ehigh peaks of the Himalayas? Choose Your Own Adventure, The aboninable snowman is an interactive adventure book in which you decide what happens...

Levison Wood's most challenging expedition yet begins along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan and travels 1700 miles through five countries over the course of six months. Following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Wood walks the entire length of the Himalayas in an adventure of survival and endurance. In a personal story of perseverance and discovery, Wood forges bonds with local guides, porters, mountain men, soldiers, farmers, smugglers...

El joven Alexander Cold, su mejor amiga Nadia, y su abuela Kate, periodista especializada en viajes han sobrevivido su aventura en las Amazonas. Junto con los fotografos de la revista National Geographic emprenden marcha a otro remoto rincon del mundo. La mision del equipo es adentrarse en un reino prohibido, oculto en los picos helados del Himalaya, y localizar el legendario oraculo y estatua sagrada, el Dragon de Oro. The teenager Alexander Cold,...

"A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings. Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media, ignoring his children and wife and everything alive in his world, when a thought struck him. This wasn't living; this wasn't him. This moment of clarity started...

"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau--civilization's final survivors--are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...