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  • CHINA

    The last high pass

    It felt amazing to finalize the assumed hard part of China and coast down from the High Tibetan plateau. In the picture I was just about to start a 60km downhill…

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    The white blanket

    The first 12 days after getting my visa extension and racing to Vietnam the weather was brilliant. Clear bright skies, snowless roads and tail wind got me to an excellent momentum.…

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    Tibetan Karaoke

    After 8 days of cycling from Golmud, 700km and nine over 4500m high passes I reached Yushu at 3700m. It was the first major Tibetan city I've seen in my life…

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    Hitting nails into ice

    A morning view from sleeping bag at 4500m on the Tibetan plateau. I occasionally struggled to pitch my tent as the ground was completely frozen, like concrete. With a big rock…

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    By a prayer stone

    This is one of the amazing campsites I found in moonlight on the Tibetan plateau. In the morning I found a piece of a prayer stone right next to my tent!…

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    Tail wind!

    Feeling good on a top of the second 4600m pass of the day. #tailwindsforever #biketouring #China #Qinghai #November2015…

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    Carless highway

    Roads like these, favorable winds and snowless conditions enabled me to keep a pace of 100km a day, day after day on the Tibetan plateau. It was surreal to ride in…

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    Frozen desert

    It took a while to learn that everything freezes up there, and stays frozen solid. It was a chock not able carry bread (my basic source of energy on the road!)…

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    Licking ice

    All the water for the first 5 days days was frozen solid on the plateau. Even the bigger rivers had a solid thick ice cover. Yaks and deer licked ice…

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