Spy On The Roof Of The World

Wignall had set out to climb the highest mountain in tibet but was recruited to investigate chinese military activity in the region.

Spy on the roof of the world.

Spy on the roof of the world. Spy on the roof of the world. Spy on the roof of the world. In this true story of espionage and survival in the himalayas wignall tells of his 1955 expedition to climb tibet s highest mountain and his mission to report on chinese military operations in newly invaded tibet.

Spy on the roof of the world. Espionage and survival in the himalayas paperback july 1 2000. In the closing weeks of 1964 the us central intelligence agency was gripped by anxiety in the wake of troubling news. In this cross between a travel adventure story and an espionage novel sydney wignall tells how he became an ad hoc spy for a renegade faction of indian intelligence operatives in 1955.

Spies on the roof of the world china s first nuclear test codename 596. On october 16th a great mushroom cloud had been spotted towering over the remote chinese missile testing range at lop nur. It was so unusual and so interesting a view point of the chinese by a scotsman who worked as a spy for the indian army that he loved and respected in addition to climbing the treacherous gurla mandhata which had been his lifelong mountaineering ambition as a member of the scottish himalayan club who suffered being captured imprisoned and tortured by them. While organizing a himalayan expedition in 1955 to climb tibet s highest peak welsh mountaineer wignall was recruited as a spy by india s secret service.

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