The Long Walk - The True Story of a Trek to Freedom - Slavomir Rawicz

Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

The movie "The Way Back" is based on this book.

(some audio tracks are unfortunately missing)