crossed in his sweep across central Asia more than 2,000 years before. Soon after, they arrived at the Turkistani kingdom of Bukhara.

When Moorcroft learned that no Turkoman horses were available in Bukhara, he decided to head home before the onset of winter closed the mountain passes. However, in August 1825, en route back to India, Moorcroft broke off from the main party to investigate reports that some of the prized horses might be found at an Afghan village to the south-west. He was never seen alive again by his companions, and is thought to have succumbed to fever or been murdered by bandits. His companions recovered his body and buried him near the Afghan city of Balkh.

Moorcroft made extensive notes of the culture, topography, wildlife, and antiquities of the Himalaya and the central Asian lands to the north. His writings, which were recovered and posthumously published in 1841 as Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindoostan and the Panjab from 1819 to 1825, earned him the reputation as the “father of Himalayan discovery”.

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