I recently watched the movie "The Way Back" and then read the book from which it was made, "The Long Walk". The movie and book were about several people escaping from a work camp in Siberia in about 1939. I thought the movie was good, but the book which was the real story was much better. Anyway, the escapees did not seem to be experts in survival but four of the seven in the group made it to India alive. It seemed to me that they made the mistakes of crossing the Gobi Desert in the summer and crossing the Himalayas in the winter. I think they got too impatient about an arbitrary schedule. Rather, they should have took their time once in Mongolia and Tibet where the locals were friendly and hospitable and gave them food. Two of them died in the Gobi. They did not realize they could eat the fairly plentiful snakes and they did not have a closed container for carrying water (again, in the summer). The Tibet locals advised them to not cross the Himalayias in the winter but they did so anyway and lost another of their group. Anyone see the movie or read the book. What do you think?
