The Cliff Climbers: A Sequel to "the Plant Hunters
1871
Two young brothers and their Indian guide have climbed into a Himalayan valley so beautiful it steals their breath and so treacherous it may never let them leave. Karl and Caspar Linden came to the Roof of the World hunting rare plants, but now they find themselves imprisoned among sheer cliffs that mock every attempt at escape. Their ingenuity is matched only by the mountain's cruelty: each solution breeds fresh disaster, each path forward leads to another dead end. Around them, the Himalayas unfold in terrible splendor, and the brothers must draw on courage they barely possess to face a landscape that wants to keep them forever. Mayne Reid wrote adventure for young readers who craved danger without leaving home, and this sequel to "The Plant Hunters" delivers pure, pulse-quickening escape literature, the kind that made Victorian children feel dangerously alive.
