Flamingo

Wilfred Thesiger traveling through the mountains of Central and South Asia — Kurdistan, the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram. The landscapes are harsh, the companions are local, and Thesiger's preference for difficulty over comfort is absolute.

Thesiger in East Africa — the final years of a life spent among traditional peoples in landscapes the modern world was closing in on. Elegiac and uncompromising.

Thesiger's first expedition — crossing the Danakil desert of Ethiopia in the 1930s, through one of the most hostile landscapes on earth, among people who had killed every previous European expedition. He was twenty-three.