Pedalling to Kailash: Cycling Adventures and Misadventures Across the Roof of the World

In 1998, Graydon Hazenberg, his sisters and their partners set off on a youthful quest. Seduced by the romance of the loftiest peaks on earth and a road claimed to be the world's highest, they pedalled out of Islamabad, Pakistan headed for Tibet's holiest mountain, the pilgrimage site of Mt. Kailash. Had they known how hard it would be on their equipment, their bodies and their willpower, they might have thought twice.
Calling themselves the Xtreme Dorks, the five cyclists pedalled, pushed a...