Without Ever Reaching the Summit

<p><b>An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth from the author of international bestseller <i>The Eight Mountains.</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br><i>Without Ever Reaching the Summit</i> 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 <i>The Eight Mountains.</i> 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.<br><br> <b>'A breath of fresh air for mountain-lovers currently in confinement...The sparse graceful prose...reflects the barren landscape and the author's joy in paring back the distractions of modern life' <i>Financial Times</i> Best Books of 2020</b></p>