Hell or High Water : Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River (Paperback)

from exfed

I really loved Heller's The Dog Stars and some of his other books, so was very hopeful for this non-fiction account of kayaking in Tibet. However, it never really grabbed me. A better river adventure book is River of Doubt, by Candice Millard.

from sushicat

In 2002 Scott Lindgren leads a group of kayakers on the first run of the Tsangpo Gorge, the Everest of rivers in the Eastern Himalaya, in a place so remote that it's near mythical Hidden Falls have been seen by only a handful of people. Peter Heller joins the company of Sherpas and porters that s...

from breic2

This book tells the story of kayaking down a large portion of the Tsangpo river gorge, in the winter to hit it at lowest flow. The author and a large support group hike along the sides of the canyon. The Tsangpo drains most of the north side of the Himalayas before turning south in an extremely d...

from MarisaVarley

Reads as a white-water version of Lord of the Rings - epic adventure by a small cluster of die-hard kayakers along the Tsanpo, the ferocious river of Tibet. Encompasses the difficulty of navigating local politics, the beauty of Tibetan culture, and the harshness of the Chinese occupation. Written...

from MarisaVarley

Reads as a white-water version of Lord of the Rings - epic adventure by a small cluster of die-hard kayakers along the Tsanpo, the ferocious river of Tibet. Encompasses the difficulty of navigating local politics, the beauty of Tibetan culture, and the harshness of the Chinese occupation. Written...