| To a Mountain in Tibet | |
| Author: | Colin Thubron |
| Country: | United Kingdom/United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Travel literature Autobiography |
| Publisher: | Chatto & Windus/Harper |
| Published: | 1 March 2011 |
| Media Type: | Hardcover |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Isbn: | 978-0099532644 |
To a Mountain in Tibet is a nonfiction book by British travel writer Colin Thubron describing his journey to Mount Kailash through a remote region of Nepal and Tibet.[1]
The book chronicles the author's travels, who sets out on foot from Humla District of Nepal with a cook, a guide, and a horseman.[2] After initially following the course of the Karnali River, the team heads in the direction of the Nalakankar Himal and enters Tibet.[3]
Sara Wheeler writing for The Guardian, "To a Mountain in Tibet offers no redemption and no conclusion. Instead, it is an elegy for everything that makes us human. You can't ask more of a book than that, can you?"
Writing for The Wall Street Journal, Alice Albinia says, "Mr. Thubron has spent four decades writing in forceful and respectful ways of foreign lands, and '