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Tibet Overland: A Route and Planning Guide for Mountain Bikers and Other Overlanders (Traliblazer Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kym Mcconnell
Publisher: Trailblazer Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1041282
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1873756410
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
UPC: 839739000018
EAN: 9781873756416
ASIN: 1873756410
Publication Date: August 2002
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Product Description
Whether traveling by 4WD, bus, mountain bike, or even yak, this guide provides invaluable advice and the most detailed maps for independent travelers crossing the world's highest and largest plateau. Tibet is a mountain-biker's paradise. Where else in the world can they cycle alongside 8000m peaks and cross 5000m passes almost daily? The Lhasa-Kathmandu route includes the world's longest downhill run--a drop of 4200m in just over 160kms of heart-stopping descent! Tibet is still one of the most remote regions in the world and any visit will be an adventure. Detailed information on over 9000kms of overland routes with a km-by-km breakdown of these classic journeys: *Lhasa to Kathmandu *Everest Base Camp (possible even by bicycle) *Lhasa to Nam Tso *Lhasa to Yarlung Valley *Xining and Golmud to Lhasa *Chengdu to Lhasa *Kunming and Dali to Lhasa *Lhasa to Mt Kailash and Kashgar
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 eye opener, must read January 14, 2008
If you have plans to go to Tibet, you NEED to read this book. This is not a Novel, it is a survival book. After reading it I still plan on riding Tibet, but will be doing the fully supported tour. Pay serious attention to the altitude, and read up some other things such as into thin air etc to make sure you understand its effects.
outstanding January 13, 2004
I've done a lot of travelling and mountainbiking throughout the world including the extreme 'Central Otago Rail Trail' and this book rates as one of the best I've read and used in years - the quality of information is outstanding and the author deserves further acolades for what he has done to promote this region of the world.I'd recommend this book be read with a Devino.
 A book that will make crossing the impossible, possible. November 19, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are planning to carry out a serious adventure across Tibet and the Himalayas, then this book will be your proverbial Bible. It gives remarkably accurate descriptions of exactly where you will be from day to day, is easy to read and understand, and makes you feel safe in an otherwise difficult environment.
I am not a serious cyclist, but with this book it was possible for me to cross what is regarded as some of the most challenging and rewarding off-road tracks on earth.
It offers useful suggestions from what to pack to recommendations of how far to ride per day and it gives you detailed advice on where you can get food and water and even, when availiable, beds.
This book is pricelss to anyone heading that way...
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