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Part 2: When Dreams Become Reality Then Become Hell: Traveling to Tibet in 1987

The journey continues

In the winter of 1987 I entered Tibet by walking from Kodari in Nepal to Zhangmu in Tibet—a journey of about three miles. As I ran across the steep hill from the town to the road, what …

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When Dreams Become Reality, Then Become Hell: Traveling to Tibet in 1987

“At 6,000 m (more than 19,500 ft.) above sea level, the Tibetan Plateau is both remote and hard to reach.”

—the BBC

So I had always dreamed of reaching the “the roof of the world,” Tibet. I finally made it …

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