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

I just finished listening to this abridged version of Himalayan Passage. It originally aired in August 2004 on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chapter a Day program. It was read by Jim Fleming in ten 30-minute segments. I save the MP3 files from the archive on a regular basis to play back later. It was an interesting book - hard to believe someone had 7 months to walk around!

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.