 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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A long walk from Newby to The Good Pub Guide.
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Byline: JOHN SUTHERLAND
THE passing of Eric Newby, author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, is one of those end-ofan-era deaths - particularly taken along with the death of his fellow intrepid world traveller, Wilfrid Thesiger, who took his last journey three years ago.
When Newby and his travelling comrade, Hugh Carless, resolved, 50 years ago, to climb Mir Samir (19,880 feet) in north-east Afghanistan, the place was remote and scarcely less dangerous than the highlands of Afghanistan are today. It was done (and described) with a delicious - and archetypally English ...
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