(Download pdf) The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la
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| #2197090 in Books | 2001-06-26 | 2001-06-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.97 x.67 x5.18l,.54 | File Name: 060980801X | 304 pages
||9 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| A waste of time and money (and paper and ink)|By Michael C Johnson|There are troubling questions in The Last River that are never fully dealt with: Did our intrepid kayakers blunder into a dangerous situation because they were racing others to be the first to explore and conquer a new territory? Were they pressured by big money sponsors to move forward with an ill-timed expe|.com |As the 20th century neared its close, few corners of the globe remained unexplored. One exception was a "monstrous and largely obscure river in southeastern Tibet" that had already resisted several British expeditions: the Yarlung Tsangpo. Raging through
The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, extreme whitewater pioneers, best friends, and trip leaders, the Tsangpo adventure was the culmination of a twenty-five-year quest for glory. Yet the...
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