ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is W.E. Bowman's account of the leader of an expedition up Rum Doodle, a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak in the Himalayas. This classic spoof of mountaineering draws on the real-life expedition of Nandi Devi by Bill Tilman. Reviews Wonderful. Rum Doodle does for mountaineering what Three Men in a Boat did for Thames-going or Catch-22 did for the Second World War. It is simply an account of the leader of an expedition up Rum Doodle, a 40,000 and a half foot peak in the Himalayas, in the same way that Scoop is simply a tale about newsgathering in Africa. The tone is nearer to...Read More