Hell or High Water
Subtitle: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: September 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781579548728
Subjects: Tibet; Sports; Description and travel; Sports & Recreation; Tibet (China); Asia - Tibet; Special Interest - Adventure; Sports & Recreation / Kayaking; China; Brahmaputra River; Kayaking
First sentence: On a late August afternoon in 2001, in the Trinity Alps of northern California, I carried my kayak up the bank of the sky-clear Cal Salmon River and stashed it with a pile of others against the wall of an equipment shed at a small lodge.
Description: "In February 2002, in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, seven extreme paddlers set their kayaks on the sandy beach, squeezed into the brightly colored shells, and stretched their sprayskirts over the cockpits of their boats. With a thrust of their paddles, the seven began what is widely acknowledged as the world's last great adventure challenge : the first descent of the Tsangpo River Gorge." "It is a story of a fluid place where East and West have collided for more than 100 years. Filled with the almost-unbelievable history of the Gorge's exploration, with the physics and beauty of world-class kayaking, with the hydrogeology of cataclysmic flash floods, and with the often-cruel politics of Tibet, Hell or High Water paints the portrait of a grand adventure in a place that time never touched."--BOOK JACKET.