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My watch reads a quarter to six-time to be motivating , get some shooting done before the day heats up to unbearable . " She would go on to write about her travels in this region in the 1934 classic The Valleys of the Assassins , while her mapping and exploratory achievements would earn her an award from England 's Royal Geographical Society and , later , a knighting by the Queen of England.Stark risked her life to journey to this part of Lorestan , searching for a Bronze Age hidden treasure that was rumored to be stashed among these hills , but she never found it , leaving behind a lingering mystery . You ca n't help but put yourself in that helpless position and recognize your own mortality . It starts and finishes in the remote desert outpost of Boulder , Utah , which is halfway between the last mountain range ( the Henrys ) and the last major river ( the Escalante ) to be discovered in the contiguous United States . But Foxe Basin turned out to be choked with sea ice , so I was stuck in Sanirajak , waiting for a gale to come along and whisk the ice away . Usually I 'm about an hour into a search like that and I have to shake my head and think , Two hours ago I was going to be having dinner with my girlfriend and now I 'm in the middle of the backcountry and it 's dark and I 'm looking for somebody . She gathered two or three in a pinch and ripped them out , twiddling her fingers together to shake off the loose hairs and then immediately seeking out another pinch . Still , one unlikely Western explorer managed to gain special access : a diminutive British woman named Freya Stark . Cassandra Winter was under constant guard , a relentless surveillance designed to thwart a killer 's bedside assault . I literally had to flee across the border into Zimbabwe , and I was so damn happy to be alive and out of that horrible situation .