all nature lovers and also people who are into hiking/climbing.Cliches become cliches because of their truth. His wife just died of cancer and he left his young 8 year old son for a dangerous adventure climbing the Himalayas. This is one of the few books that I actually had a dream about while reading it. It was the first time for me to read a book by Peter Matthiessen and I'm afraid I didn't like it too much. The descriptions of birds and animals and plants so unfamiliar to my citified self had me running to Wikipedia quite often. It is a humble record of a man's journey through the Himalayas and his concurrent spiritual journey. This is one of the most intelligent, beautifully written books I’ve read. Their ultimate destination was a range so remote it was nearly impenetrable by travelers and its villages FIVE STARS AND BEYOND! Matthiessen fails to see the snow leopard, but gains something else. We’d love your help. Besides, the snow leopards have large claws which enable them to take down large prey that could be up to three times their body size. I would mention only that the attitude to the latter sometimes left me with a bad taste. He isn't on a meditation retreat. But this work is more than a travelogue, it is a journey of spiritual quest and discovery for the author with the elusive Snow Leopard serving as a token of his goal. They have robust muscles around the chest, which allows the snow leopard to outpace their prey. The founder of the Momofuku restaurant group, Chang is a chef, TV persona...When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes.
During freezing nights, the snow leopard wraps its tail around its body to increase warmth. And actually, of course, the expedition is one of many men, the porters and Sherpas too. The long tail comes in handy to balance the body of the snow leopard when it is running or walking on precarious locations. It’s taking me forever to finish THE SNOW LEOPARD by Peter Matthiessen - a brilliant and beautiful masterwork, a meditation on Zen Buddhism, a travelogue and a moving memoir. PM, a student of Buddhism, made the journey as a kind of pilgrimage after the death of his wife. However, most of the book is really about Tibetan culture. There's so much in it to think about and so much that I missed reading this first time.
But Matthiessen's observations of both his inner and outer worlds are *astonishing* in their simplicity and clarity. I'll make this book one of my all time favorites, because when I finished it, I wanted to start reading it again.

This wasn't a read I just 'fit in' but truly savored. He is walking through people's lives in living breathing communities and he barely seems to notice.Sometimes it's not till I finish a book that I realize how much I am in love with it. This book will spark that interest in you and prompt you to search yourself.I have taken months since reading this book to finally write this (long) review:I have taken months since reading this book to finally write this (long) review:This is a beautiful book about a personal and physical journey in Nepal by Peter Matthiessen. The setting and objectives of this expedition were so extraordinary its story could hardly fail to be interesting. It is a humble record of a man's journey through the Himalayas and his concurrent spiritual journey. Like all good travel writers, he gives more than just descriptions (although his descriptions of the mountains and their people are stunning). At this point around a third of the content was religious philosophy - which is not for me. This is a beautifully written book of Matthiessen's journey to the roof of the world in Nepal.


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