Salman Rashid – an old traveler writer and a new blogger

Born in Lahore in 1952, Salman Rashid is today the country’s foremost travel writer. He is the only Pakistani who has seen the North Face of K-2 and trekked in the shadow of this great mountain. His first hand accounts of exploits in places that most Pakistanis do not know even exist, had found a loyal readership long before the publishers decided to put together collections of the newspaper columns that have featured his adventures. Haunted by a wanderlust, which even the most old world upbringing could not suppress, Rashid has, over the years, literally legged it around the country to come home and temper accounts of his adventures with an interesting mix of geographical, sociological and historical coherence.

Salman Rashid is author of several books including jhelum: City of the Vitasta and The Apricot Road to Yarkand, Riders on the Wind, Between two Burrs on the Map, Prisoner on a Bus and Sea Monsters and the Sun God. He is the only Pakistani to have seen the North Face of K-2 and trekked in the shadow of this great mountain. His work – explorations, history, travel writings – appears in almost all leading publications and on his blog.

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