Nanda Devi Affair

There is a kind of brotherhood between man and mountains.... The inescapable logic of desire leaves the mountain traveller no choice but to plan his next expedition to the very peak that may have just rejected vociferously the most singleminded of advances.' In his thirty-year sojourn in India Bill Aitken has had two serious affairsone essentially spiritual in nature with the country's rivers the other more earthy and passionate with her mountains. In this sequel to his first book for Penguin Se...See More