by Sidney Wignall · Pratiche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788873807186
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«La spia sul tetto del mondo» is Sidney Wignall's mountain and espionage account, published by Pratiche in paperback (384 pages, in Italian).
In 1955, climber Sidney Wignall travels to the Himalayas and becomes involved in a secret operation between India and China: he must cross into Tibet to obtain evidence of the Chinese military advance. The mission fails and he is detained with his two companions. His first-person account combines mountain chronicle, espionage and extreme survival in the depths of winter.
Italian translation by Sabina Marceca for the 2001 edition. The English original, «Spy on the Roof of the World» (1996), was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature.
For readers of mountain chronicles, true spy stories and travel accounts of the Himalayas.
