Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World Hazenberg Graydon
Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World Hazenberg Graydon In 1998, Graydon Hazenberg, his sisters and their partners set off on a youthful quest. Had…
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Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World Hazenberg Graydon
In 1998, Graydon Hazenberg, his sisters and their partners set off on a youthful quest. Had they known how hard it would be on their equipment, their bodies and their willpower, they might have thought twice.Calling themselves the Xtreme Dorks, the five cyclists pedalled, pushed and hiked their way around, over and through the world's highest mountain ranges. Seduced by the romance of the loftiest peaks on earth and a road claimed to be the world's highest, they pedalled out of Islamabad, Pakistan headed for Tibet's holiest mountain, the pilgrimage site of Mt. Kailash.
They followed in the footsteps of previous pilgrims, explorers and mountaineers, passing through remote valleys and wind-scoured plateaux. For three months they persevered despite a frequent lack of food or anything resembling a real road. Along the way they had the privilege of meeting members of some of the cultures