Paddling the Frontier is a guidebook for explorers of selected whitewater rivers in the mountainous regions of Pakistan. Although it was meticulously accurate when compiled in 1987-1989, the last two decades have brought social turmoil, flooding and earthquakes of literally Himalayan proportions to that region. Modern paddlers would have to take its descriptions with great caution. It remains a unique snapshot of Pakistan in an earlier era, and a footnote to the development of whitewater sport.