About the Book: Where the Indus Is Young: A Winter in Baltistan
One winter in the mid-1970s, Dervla Murphy, her six-year-old daughter Rachel and
Hallam, a hardy mule, walked into Baltistan close to Pakistan-held Kashmir—the
frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. For three months they travelled along the
perilous Indus Gorge and into nearby valleys, making a mockery of fear, trekking
through the forbidding Karakoram mountains and lodging with the Balts, who farm
one of the remotest regions on earth. Despite the hardship, Dervla never forgot
the point of travel, retaining enthusiasm for her magnificent surroundings and
using her sense of humour to bring out the