"They did it because they did not know it was impossible" (Mark Twain)

Sylvain Tesson (1972-) is a French travel writer.
A geographer by training, he made his first expedition in 1991 in Iceland, followed in 1993 with a world tour by bicycle with Alexandre Poussin. It also passes through the steppes of Central Asia on horseback with the Explorer Priscilla Telmon.
In 2004, he took over the route of the gulag escapees by following the story of Slavomir Rawicz: The Long Walk (1955). This journey takes her from Siberia to India on foot.

"There's the wolf creature on the sidelines of the world, not to walk in the usual direction. The escapees, who are a kind of a hunted animal, have also taken this line leading to the north of Eurasia up 'the slopes of the Himalayas, the axis of the devil ... "
Yakutsk (Siberia central- Russia) to Calcutta in India, the story of a long walk in the footsteps of escaped prisoners of the Gulag, as a pretext.
As always with Sylvain Tesson, the adventure is much broader. Introspection, reflection on modern society and the future of man. Admiration and adoration before a nature that knows how to be cruel and sublime at once.
Some furtive encounters punctuate the narrative of this incorrigible hermit.

Is not literature not -before all - adventure, scenery, lonely thoughts?
Tesson is a master and it's happiness in print to follow.
A moment of eternal reading!