The travel writer Eric Newby gives a comic description of his first climb and almost his only training in mountaineering, the Ivy Sepulchre, led by two expert waitresses from the inn where he is staying, in his book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.
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The English traveller Eric Newby and the diplomat Hugh Carless attempted to climb Mir Samir in 1956, as described in the humorous book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.