Trekking Tibet: A Traveler's Guide

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Mountaineers Books, 2010 - Sports & Recreation - 397 pages
  • Thoroughly revised and updated new edition
  • Features one of the most detailed histories of Tibetan culture and geography available for travelers
  • Includes a new trekking route over a glaciated 19,300-foot pass used by Heinrich Harrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet
In the new edition of this indispensible trekking guide to Tibet, travelers will learn the necessities of pre-trip planning and how to seek out the most rewarding treks in a region of the world few get to visit. New features of the 3rd edition include:
  • Expanded section on East Tibet
  • New five-day trek in the popular Lhasa region of the pilgrimage circuit of Lhamo Latsho
  • New trek route over a pass used by George Mallory in 1921 on his first reconnaissance of Everest
  • New two-day trek in the Shishapangma region
  • Four new treks in the Mount Kailash region

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About the author (2010)

Gary McCue is a guide who regularly leads treks through the Himalaya and Tibet.

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