Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, nepal, china, India, & Pakistan

by Jeremy Schmidt, Patrick Morrow (Photographer)

* Winner of the first Barbara Savage Memorial Award

* Stunning color photos of the journey

* Look into the heart of the top of the world



This is the story of two young couples who embarked on a free-form journey through Tibet, Nepal, China, India and Pakistan. Their to circumnavigate the Himalayas by bike, foot, truck by any means necessary, the slope of the world's greatest mountain range their only guide. Along the way they experienced a region steeped in ancient tradition but permanently altered by its confrontation with the 20th century; they discovered all that is exotic and mundane, funny and tragic, and beautiful and brutal about this vast territory.



Jeremy Schmidt's humorous, evocative narrative recounts bureaucrats, knife-wielding Khampas, lamas-in-training, and mystics of every stripe. With stunning photographs by Patrick Morrow, Himalayan Passage reveals a place imbued with meaning and reality far beyond anything in the world the mysterious, turbulent Himalayas, the gates to God. Also available in hardcover.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Asia

302 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Mckinley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Glad to be an armchair traveler on this one. Biking and trucking and treking high-country around the Himalayas would be a bit much for me. Mostly about travel arrangements and places they stayed (and where frequently one of the troupe was ill and recovering). Some about the treking and biking. Interesting while a lot some indistinguishable from one situation to another. Perhaps a bit of editing could have helped with that. Enjoyed the colored photo sections. On a side note, there are no references to sources he mentions. I looked up one story he relates and found nothing to support it; it was a side issue and he certainly never stated it was true. I think it was more to add flavor for was rumors, stories, tales and the like got bandied about.

[Ahimsa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Instantly one of the most enjoyable travel books I've ever read.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've really been dying to go traveling and this book helped satisfy some of that craving. The author has that great traveler perspective, wanting to slow down the pace and see the lay of the land. Some of the interpersonal dynamics between the author and fellow travelers was not fleshed out that effectively but that is not what this book was about. It was about a description of the lands they traveled through and Jeremy successfully painted that picture for the given time in which he traveled (which was the mid-80's.