ascending the Tibetan Plateau - mile 7523
May 31st 2010 Today we have to ride 300 miles - not normally a problem but today the last 100 miles will be on dirt roads climbing from 1300m up to 4996m, that's a lot of up!! But its exciting as tonight we will be sleeping up on the Tibetan Plateau at 3800m. At 07:00 we set off in the dark (that's Beijing Time for you - the locals would call this 05:00!!) but the sun soon rises over the flat agricultural pla
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