Book Review - The Valley of Flowers
The Valley of Flowers is written by F.S. Smythe in 1938. It tells the story of the four months he spent in 1931 climbing Mount Kamet in the Garhwal Himalayas with five other British mountaineers.
The book is descriptive and entertaining and brings one back again and again to the beauty of nature and the lessons it has to teach us. The Valley of the Flowers includes photos of the many flowers the botanists found during their trek. The amazing feat of tiny plants growing and surviving even in the harshest conditions of 7000ft above sea level. It is also a human story as the trek involved many mountaineers, but also the guides and porters.
It is worth the read as you can almost visualize the meadows and mountains that surrounded them.
He ends the book saying, " Beauty, health, good comradeship, peace, all these had been mine in the Valley of Flowers. For a while I had lived simply and happily and I like to think, indeed I know, that those about me had been happy too."
Namaste.
Pamela Nelson
Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor
plnyogastudio@gmail.com
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