Himalayan Playground

During the twilight years of the British Raj in India, Trevor Braham attended
boarding school in Darjeeling within sight of the magnificent spectacle of
Kangchenjunga and its surrounding peaks. This youthful exposure led later to
half-a-lifetime of adventures and activities in the Himalayas between 1942 and
1972; the ‹golden age› of Himalayan exploration of the world’s highest
mountains.

Himalayan Playground is a final memoir of a period of mountain exploration
that will never be seen again and homage to a time when mountaineers regarded
these ranges as something more than mere targets to be ticked off on a list of
things to do.