A Sail in the Mountains. A Story About Those Who Live Where Others Cannot Survive

“Sail in the Mountains. A Story About Those Who Live Where Others Can’t Survive”—not just a documentary book, but a living, sensory journey by journalist, orientalist, and filmmaker Andrey Kirsanov. It’s a real diary of travel, observations, and discoveries that covers everything—from the deserts of Jordan to the ice of Northern Europe, from Kamchatka’s volcanoes to the shores of Syria and lost corners of Oceania.

For many years, the author has worked in Arab countries, interviewing politicians and diplomats. But in the center of this book he places people without titles, yet with a great inner light: a lighthouse keeper on an island, a doctor in a war-torn country, an artist in the desert, a diver, a volunteer, a builder of temples, a marathon runner running toward the Dead Sea—not for records, but for truth.

This is the story of those whom you won’t see in the news—but whose stories deserve to be remembered. About places where culture, faith, history, and personal choice intertwine. About meaning that isn’t in headlines, but deep in human actions.

This book is like a guide in a restless world—a lighthouse, or an inner compass.