# The Snow Leopard

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- Book: [The Snow Leopard](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-matthiessen/the-snow-leopard) ([The Snow Leopard.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-matthiessen/the-snow-leopard.md))
- Authors: [Peter Matthiessen](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-matthiessen)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9977-111-1
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2025-08-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

One of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written, this is the true story of a journey to the high Himalayas in search of the snow leopard. In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it was also a 'journey of the heart'. Amongst the beauty and indifference of the mountains Matthiessen was searching for solace. He was also searching for a glimpse of a snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be almost mythical. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD MABEY 'A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among' Paul Theroux