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Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsango River
Peter Heller
Peter Heller's account of the first attempt to kayak the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet — the deepest canyon on earth, with rapids that had never been run. One member of the team drowned. The others kept going. Adventure journalism at its most committed.
Mountains & Climbing
River & Water
Sailing & Paddling
Narrative Nonfiction
Himalaya
Publisher
Rodale Books
Published
2004
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