Hell or high water surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River
It is the Everest of rivers, a maelstrom of water and rocks, gradient and flow. It is the world's last great adventure prize, remote, forbidding, and hidden from Western eyes. Long considered unrunnable, the Tsangpo River has drawn extreme kayakers since the sport was born. It's killed the...
| Main Author: | Heller, Peter, 1959- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Emmaus, Pa.] :
Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The assignment
- Lhasa to Pe
- The river
- Tripe to Selung Creek
- Kintup the Tailor
- Gyala to Doug's ledges
- Doug's ledges to the spur
- Pemakochung
- The Kondrasong La to Kondrasong La Falls
- Northeast Straits to Pine Camp
- The grand portage
- Gogden
- The Lower Gorge.