num_pages: 155
description: Philip Tranter and three friends drove a Land Rover 6000 miles overland from Scotland to Nuristan to explore some of the unknown Central Hindu Kush area. They set out to attempt the second ascent of the monstrous Koh-i-Krebek (20500 feet) by a new route from the south; to ascend if possible at least one other major unclimbed mountain and to map that previously unmapped terrain.In fact as well as Krebek they climbed nine other major peaks named another dozen and established the existence of a dramatic rock and ice range which they called the Rum Mountains and christened individually after the Hebridean peaks they resembled in shape and beauty.The story of the expedition is told with an infectious enthusiasm for the glory and challenge of these mysterious peaks most of which had been hitherto quite unknown and there is something akin to the Renaissance spirit of adventure in this exhilarating Scottish expedition of discovery to the roof of Asia.
language: English
title: No tigers in the Hindu Kush
publisher: Travel Book Club