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  1. #61 Re: Shenzhen to Mount Everest 
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  2. #62 Re: Shenzhen to Mount Everest 
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    beautiful!
    I had an altitude sickness at 5000m. It was unbearable so after one night needed to descent.
    Great Ride!
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  3. #63 Re: Shenzhen to Mount Everest 
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    The view of that mountain is worth every penny.

    Congratulations!
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  4. #64 Re: Shenzhen to Mount Everest 
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    Great report fellas. A lot of us are put off with Teebet proper due to cost and red tape associated with it, but this RR really makes one think twice bout that. Keep it coming.
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    We were at the frost covered bikes at 7.30 ready to get rattled about. Nyima was pillion with me as George had taken him on the way up. We made it safely back to blessed tarmac, swapped bikes and made good ground until hitting the same 40 kms of road works, this time uphill. I was so elated at our luck with the weather nothing could dampen my spirits, Everest was completely hidden from view when we left and it seemed as if the gods had opened the mountain just for us before closing it firmly once more, Nyima and his fellow guides said we must have good karma...who knows where I picked that up!

    After flying down a descent from 5245 metres we went back through some familiar checkpoints and were back in Xigatse by 5. I did drag the guys off on one very silly rocky adventure which they weren't best pleased about but we did make friends with a nice shephard and his flock.

    We hit the beer tents in Xigatse, ate some great bbq and discussed the merits of filling up first thing in the morning versus filling up after an hour's ride,

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    We stayed in the same hotel in Xigatse and managed to leave at 9.45 this time, stopped for gas after 90 kms then went up a nice pass by a pretty reservoir. We stopped and took some pics and some Tibetan tat sellers told us they loved us...they can't have seen too many people that day! The next pass was at the Karola glacier which even in it's reduced state was an impressive sight. We descended and at the bottom of the pass my bike just died, unfortunately George and Nyima were leading so they didn't see me. I tested the battery and it was dead as dodo so when George came back to find me we towed the bike 5 kms to the nearest town and fitted a new one.

    Turquoise Lake was probably one of the most beautiful places we saw all trip and I hadn't even heard of it. By this time there was lots more traffic and tourists as we were back near Lhasa so we didn't stop for too long and got straight on with the task in hand – namely one of the best descents we'd done all trip. The road was a bit beat up at the start then smoothed out and we both gave it the beans. At the bottom neither bike had any chicken strips whatsever.

    Coming into Lhasa we got caught by a speed camera and given a bollocking by some coppers. At first they confiscated our licenses and seemed to want us to pay a 'fine', I was very happy to pay but once they saw that they said don't worry about just take it easy...nice! We covered the 70 kms into Lhasa at an absolute snail's pace, 40, which was probably even more dangerous than speeding because it's almost impossible to concentrate riding that slowly.

    In Lhasa we went back to our favourite restaurant 'Dunya' and had a lock in with the Dutch boss. We finished off George's whiskey, drank far far too much and were generally very badly behaved indeed.

    The next day we went to the train station only to be told our bikes now couldn't be shipped by train so we put them on a truck instead. I went to pick up my bike yesterday in Shenzhen and found George's bike there...bugger. The bikes are exchanging places as I type this!

    By the way the awful dirt road to base camp will be concreted soon so my advice is to go there soon before the whole place is overrun!

    6451 kilometres in total.
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  9. #69 Re: Shenzhen to Mount Everest 
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    Georges bike certainly had a good christening
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