The first publication in Russian of travel notes by Yu.N. Roerich, a member of the Central Asian expedition (1923-1928) of the outstanding Russian artist N.K. Roerich. The book is provided with extensive commentary. In the afterword to the book, the famous Soviet writer Nikolai Tikhonov characterizes Yuri Nikolaevich as follows: "Who, if not he, knew all the routes of high-mountain Tibet, the difficulties and peculiarities of staying in this country, where he, together with Nikolai Konstantinovich, experienced so much and saw so much in his travels to places where the European did not step foot."