Journey to Freedom

Re “You Call That Surviving?” (by John Rabe, Jan. 27):

The most astounding story of man against the elements I have ever heard of is told in the book “The Long Walk,” by Slavomir Rawicz. Rawicz and a small group of fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in 1941, then walked out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet and over the Himalayas to British India.

They faced extremes of cold, heat, hunger and thirst, and several died along the way--all because they wanted to be free.

ALAN COOK

Rancho Palos Verdes