Dear Family, Friends, Relatives, and Rock Stars, This Thursday i will be leaving for China. I will be spending the majority of the summer there doing field research on the impact of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, which happens to be the first railway to link China and Tibet as well as the world's highest. For more info see the link below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai-Tibet_Railway In order to do this i will be bicycling from the Chinese city of Xining in the Qinghai province to Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, alongside the railway - about a 2000 km journey...or 1250 miles, with an average altitude above 4000 meters for the majority of the ride. Once I reach Golmud, the halfway point of the ride and gateway city to the Tibet Autonomous Region, I join two partners for
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