The story of a determined but often troubled expedition into one of the last unexplored regions of the earth. Isolated by the Taklamakan Desert to the North and the Tibetan wastes to the south, the region has remained largely ignored since the desperate forays of a handful of Victorian explorers. The book captures the tensions and dangers of the expedition's progress.

"It is probably the hardest area of the world to get to - Bill Tilman and I had hoped to get there but it is too far in" Eric Shipton