The Heart of the World tells one of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery in living memory: an extraordinary journey to one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on earth, a meditation on our place in nature, and a pilgrimage to the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist faith.

The highly anticipated account of celebrated explorer Ian Baker's travels into the heart of the deepest gorge on earth, culminating in his and his team's discovery of a mythical waterfall that Tibetans believe is the threshold to a mystical paradise - the origin of the Shangri-La myth.