Trekking Tibet: A Traveler's Guide

* Thoroughly revised and updated new edition

* Features one of the most detailed histories of Tibetan culture and geography available for travelers

* Includes a new trekking route over a glaciated 19,300-foot pass used by H einrich H arrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet

In the new edition of this indispensible trekking guide to Tibet, travelers will learn the necessities of pre-trip planning and how to seek out the most rewarding treks in a region of the world few get to visit. New features of the 3rd edition include:

> Expanded section on East Tibet

> New five-day trek in the popular Lhasa region of the pilgrimage circuit of Lhamo Latsho

> New trek route over a pass used by G eorge Mallory in 1921 on his first reconnaissance of Everest

> New two-day trek in the Shishapangma region

> Four new treks in the Mount Kailash region