Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India and Pakistan

By Jeremy Schmidt

Book Overview

This is the story of two young couples who embarked on a free-form journey through Tibet, Nepal, China, India and Pakistan. Their goal: to circumnavigate the Himalayas by bike, foot, truck by any means necessary, the slope of the world's greatest mountain range their only guide. Along the way they experienced a region steeped in ancient tradition but permanently altered by its confrontation with the 20th century; they discovered all that is exotic and mundane, funny and tragic, and beautiful and brutal about this vast territory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898862620
• ISBN13: 9780898862621
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.5"