Just because we haven't reviewed a book here in a while

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz

Rawicz was a Polish ex-pat living in Britain when he dictated this questionable story to a ghost writer about his escape along with 7 other prisoners from a Soviet gulag in 1941 and their subsequent thousands mile journey out of Siberia, through the Gobi Desert, and over the Himalayas into India... on foot. Subsequent evidence has surfaced which suggests that though Rawicz was captured by the Soviets he probably never actually escaped from a Siberian work camp. The story he tells might make a serviceable TV serial (it was, in fact, made into a not so successful movie recently). But since it's most likely bullshit, it's useless to read as non-fiction. And since the writing isn't very impressive while the story just kind of plods along, it's not the greatest novel. Still, as a weird tall tale, it's compelling enough to read all the way through. Just don't expect to gain anything by that other than a slight diversion.

I think I probably stuck with it just for the sake of the walking tour of central Asia. But you don't have to waste your time for that. Instead try Ted Conover's The Routes Of Man which contains a factual telling of a journey through the Himalayas.