Himalayan Holiday: A Trans-Himalayan Diary 1939

A short book, developed from a diary when Young was on leave from the RAF, and led a mountaineering and hunting expedition in Himalayan India, around Kashmir.
While perhaps not the most entertaining of books, Young is perceptive and writes well enough. Certainly he is not self-aggrandizing or talking up his efforts - probably quite the opposite. After his expedition he researched and credited many others with travelling parts of his route before, and explained some of the cultural events that he witnessed on his travels.
While he ultimately didn't succeed in his primary goal (pioneering a new route to Gyong La, and his hunting of the block he had reserved didn't eventuate (another solider had also mistakenly been given a permit for the same block, and as Young arrived this other man had just finished, meaning the block would likely be hunted out or at very list heavily disturbed), there is still some hunting and plenty of mountaineering covered, as well as lessons in dealing with coolies, interactions with Buddhist monks, villagers and locals.
3 stars.