A great tale in the Telegraph about three “young housewives”, who 50 years ago decided on a jaunt right across Europe, and up the Himalayas.
Five months later the women returned to England and resumed their lives as diligent wives. They packed their adventure away, along with the maps, and these intrepid explorers were largely forgotten. There is no mention of them in the 1979 book Zanskar, the Hidden Kingdom, by the French explorer Michel Peissel, nor in many later books on the area.
(Zanskar is now in Jammu and Kashmir.)
And their adventure was forgotten, and probablyten would have remained so, had not a diligent film maker uncovered their film record “the only visual record of Zanskar before 1975… When Salter tracked down the women he found the film in a box on top of Davies’s wardrobe”.
You can’t but feel that had they been men, they would have made a great fuss and today been something like travel David Attenboroughs….
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