A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by Eric Newby. It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush, around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan.

Background to the book

In 1956, at the age of 36, Newby ended his London career in fashion and decided impulsively to travel to a remote corner of Afghanistan where no European had ventured for 50 years.

He sent a telegraph to the diplomat Hugh Carless, then First Secretary in Tehran, requesting he accompany him on an expedition to northern Afghanistan.^[1] They were ill-prepared and poorly-experienced, but Newby and his friend Carless vowed to attempt Mir Samir, an unclimbed glacial peak in the Hindu Kush of 20,000 feet.

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