Trekking Tibet: A Traveler's Guide, 3rd Edition

Trekking Tibet: A Traveler's Guide, 3rd Edition

<ul> <li>Thoroughly revised and updated new edition</li> <li>Features one of the most detailed histories of Tibetan culture and geography available for travelers</li> <li>Includes a new trekking route over a glaciated 19,300-foot pass used by Heinrich Harrer, author of <i>Seven Years in Tibet</i></li> </ul> 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:<br> <ul> <li>Expanded section on East Tibet<br> <li>New five-day trek in the popular Lhasa region of the pilgrimage circuit of Lhamo Latsho</li> <li>New trek route over a pass used by George Mallory in 1921 on his first reconnaissance of Everest</li> <li>New two-day trek in the Shishapangma region</li> <li>Four new treks in the Mount Kailash region</li>