Other editions of book The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk -- a camp where surviving hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their trek over thousands of miles by foot -- out of Siberia and through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India -- was a remarkable journey through some of the most inhospitable conditions on the face of the earth.