One year and 4,000 miles walking out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India with only one goal, freedom. The Long Walk purports to describe the author’s escape from a Soviet prison camp in 1941. The author is a ghostwriter who was told the story by Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish Army officer who was captured after the Soviet invasion of Poland.
I was starting to believe the story of a harrowing journey until the alleged sighting of two “Yeti” in the Himalayan mountains. The Yeti is often described as the Abominable Snowman in Western popular culture. I could no longer suspend disbelief.