A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by Eric Newby. It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush, around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan.
In 1956, at the age of 36, Newby ended his London career in fashion and decided impulsively to travel to a remote corner of Afghanistan where no European had ventured for 50 years. He was ill-prepared and poorly-experienced, but Newby and his friend Hugh Carless vowed to climb Mir Samir, an unclimbed glacial peak in the Hindu Kush of 20,000 feet.