29 days. The ultimate Mountain Biking expedition across the roof of the world - Colourful Kathmandu - Sunset on Mount Everest from Rongbuk - The world's longest bike descent, from the Tibetan Plateau into Nepal The Trip motto was EFI.

This is a simply brilliant high levelride, traversing the road between Lhasa and Kathmandu and including the 4-day round trip, off-road, to the Rongbuk Valley beneath the stunning north face of Mount Everest. Flying into Lhasa, we allow 4 days for essential acclimatisation in the mystical Tibetan capital and have plenty of time to explore its numerous attractions, including the fabulous Potala Palace. Our overland route back to Kathmandu crosses 6 major passes and visits the spectacular monastery towns of Gyantse, Shigastse and Shegar. Reaching the edge of the Tibetan Plateau at the Thang La (5200m.), we begin the longest road descent in the world, an almost unbelievable 4600 metres to the valley of the Sun Kosi River in Nepal. Two days of biking on the amazing ridge-top trails of the Kathmandu Valley round off this superb trip.

 

So who went on this epic journey ? Well it was quite an international mix, with our group leader Matt Ready comming in from New Zeland. We then had 2 people from England, Paul Smith and Martin Sinclair. We had 2 people in from Ireland Hayden Bell and David, in from teh USA was Maryan and her husband Stan. Just south of the USA was Fransisco coming from Mexcio. We had one person from Sweden Stephan and finally one person Australia Linton.

We began this gourney on in mid May 2002 and spend a month cycling over the Himalaya range, the highest mountain in the world. This web site is to show others who are planning a trip or just interested in the spectacular sceanary