Blank on the map.

Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal inscription to his wife Diana.

This book describes an expedition which explored and mapped a section of the Karakoram Range, north of Kashmir, called the Shaksgam area, or the 'Blank on the map'. The expedition was led by Shipton and included the famous mountaineer H.W. Tilman who became a regular climbing companion of Shipton and also two scientists M.A. Spender and J.B. Auden. The journey lasted five months and they managed to map 1,800 square miles. A remarkable feat.

This copy has a very personal association as it belonged to Eric Shipton's wife Diana Kendall Channer whom he married in 1942.