The classic work of Central Asian exploration, perhaps the definitive work of its time. His journeys through the Pamirs established his reputation as a Central Asian explorer of the first rank and led to him being awarded the Founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Although the author did not make the first journey from Peking to India (he was beaten by a few weeks by Colonel Bell), his dramatic journey over the Mustagh Pass, and his descent of the Boltoro Glacier, passing through the heart of Karakoram, makes this one of the greatest of Asian journeys for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.
Sir Francis Younghusband is universally known for his forcible entry into Lhasa in 1902. But his adventures commenced much earlier. After mountaineering in Manchuria, he began in 1887 his exciting journey through the heart of Asia, across the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan to Kashgar and Yarkand, and then across the Himalayas to Srinagar.
