Kiwi/Irish Mountain Biking Expedition Lhasa to Kathmandu 2006 Tibet is on the roof of the world, a high, cold land of brown arid mountains and ice peaks, where the wind screams like a thousand dragons, and hurls dust into the sky. It is a land of Buddhist lamaseries and the devout, spinning prayer wheels on the Koras, or lying prostrate in the dust murmuring “ O Mane Padme Hum”, a land of giant lammergeyers, wheeling in...
Read MoreProject Nepal Some months ago Bryan Scott from Dunedin, one of my old climbing buddies called me and asked would I be keen on joining him on a mission to the earthquake affected regions of Nepal. On 25th April 2015, a massive earthquake hit Nepal. Over 9000 people were killed and 23,000 injured and hundreds of thousands made homeless. The epicentre was to the NW of Kathmandu. I promptly agreed to join Bryan. We decided the best...
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