A Tibetan Trek of Faith - Yak Butter Blues

Language: EnglishPages: 252 (23 B/W Illustrations)About the AuthorBrandon Wilson is an award-winning author and photographer, explorer and pear walker.He is author of other true travel adventure books including Along the Templar Trail and Dead Men Dont Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa. His story about a year spent living in the Arctic, Life When hell Freezes Over, Appears in they Lived to Tell the Tale: True Stories of Adventure from the Legendary Explorer Club (The Lyons Press/Globe Pequot) His Spanish Pilgrimage photo essay appears in Naive and abroad; Spain: Limping 600 Miles Through History by Marcus Wilder, and his photos have won awards from National Geographic traveller and islands magazines.When Not writing, he enjoys inspiring others to discover lifes possibilities through long-distance walking. A voracious explorer of nearly one hundred countries, he is an expert long-distance, light trekker. He blazed the 2620-mile Templar Trail from France to Jerusalem, and has walked many of the worlds major pilgrimage trails; the famed Camino de Santiago across Spain (Twice), the via de la Plata, and St. Olavs Way across Norway.He and his wife cheryls were the first Western couple to complete the 650-mile Buddhist pilgrims trail from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu, and he was the first American to traverse the 1150-mile via Francigena trail from England to Rome.Wilson,a member of the prestigious explorers Club, is a peace and human rights advocate.IntroductionThe wind kicks up again. A vast, desolate swath of sand stretches for miles, days in any direction. We are insignificant: insects trudging across a desert. Meager possessions are slung across a patient horse's back. Once-strong bodies buckle under the pervasive wind. We bend double, choking on dust. Sand invades every pore. Pus s