Where the Indus is Young

Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter walked into the Karakorum mountains in the western Himalayas and along the Indus Gorge. Accompanied by a polo pony, they endured conditions that tested their limits of ingenuity, fortitude and courage. This is their story.

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Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter walked into the Karakorum mountains in the heart of the western Himalayas and along the perilous Indus Gorge. Accompanied by only a gallant polo pony, they endured conditions that tested their limits of ingenuity, fortitude and courage and, remarkably, with little loss of good humour. This is their story.