Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, and Pakistan by Jeremy Schmidt and Patrick Morrow

Monday, August 23 through Friday, September 3, 2004. Read by Jim Fleming.

For a few months in 1987 the Chinese allowed relatively unrestricted access to Tibet for Western travelers. Jeremy Schmidt and his photographer friend Pat Morrow, along with their wives Wendy and Baiba, took advantage of the opening and traveled by bike and foot and truck through the country.

(The Mountaineers; ISBN-10: 0898862620)

Theme: “La Bastringue/Green Mountain Petronella” & “Distant Side” from the album “Endless” with Silk Road Music (Jericho Beach Music JBM 9801-2)