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Nowadays Bookpleasures and Sketchandtravel are delighted to own as our visitor, Brandon Wilson, writer of Yak Butter Blues. In 1992, Brandon and his wife Cheryl travelled 40 times from early July to the end of December in 1992 around 1000 kilometers going over the historical pilgrimage way across Tibet. Evidently, they were one of many first Western couples to trek that historical way along side, incidentally, a horse they named Sadhu. Great day Brandon and many thanks for taking our invitation to be interviewed.

Brandon: Tashi delek, Norm! We’d been exploring for decades as budget travelers, traveling gentle, with merely a backpack to keep us for weeks on end. Along the way, we’d made our necessity trip all over the world for per year and had observed a lot of hidden wiki civilization’s best achievements. We’n also moved overland across Africa for nine weeks (which is the main topic of my guide to be produced in 2005, Useless Men Don’t Leave Tips. So, we were prepared for a far more powerful knowledge anything more in line with that of the fantastic explorers.

Our decision to try to journey from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal sprung from the idea that this is the greatest adventure. Every one spent my youth with the star of a Shangri-La, that bizarre place from James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. The more that I read about Tibet, the more I was fascinated by its remoteness, inaccessibility, and their unique reputation. Then, as chance might have it, we were told several times that journey had never been done by a Western pair and so it was “impossible. that finally closed our fate the roads closed.

In terms of “fears” before the trip, first, I had real problems that we wouldn’t be allowed into Tibet as independent people, because the line had been shut in their mind for many years. A Asian prepared party visit was just out from the problem for us. Then, though we were sure the trip was “impossible” as a result of insufficient food, water, accommodations, and maps, individually I was more concerned about the weather. Knowing the extent of temperature problems in the Himalayas, could we be able to reach the lower altitudes of Nepal with time before.