Excerpt from Kulu and Lahoul: With Illustrations and a MapIn my last book on the Himalaya I expressed a hope that one day I should be able to travel in Kulu, Lahoul, and Spiti.Since then my luck has so far favoured me that I was able to spend a leave of more than six months in two of these attractive districts, and able to enjoy almost the most delightful time that I have ever had in the Himalaya.These districts, I venture to say, will never be overrun or become hackneyed, even to the extent that parts of Kashmir are.The mountaineering success of the expedition was almost entirely due to our excellent guide, Heinrich Führer.We covered a very large extent of country, and spent but a short time in each valley, and if it had not been for his exceptional qualities as a path-finder, over and above his technical qualifications as a climber, we should not have been nearly so successful. Further, we were obliged, owing to continuous bad weather, always to make an early start.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.