Showing posts with label himalayasX2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label himalayasX2011. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Paradise - Bicycle Touring / Connecting with Community in the Wider World Around You...

When you know that you are different 


because of the passion taken in what you love to do. 


FIND some INSPIRATION.


You might just want to connect to that bicycle community, 



and go touring to see different places and meet new faces. 


It only takes a spark of hope to start with. 
BE DIFFERENT.


Inspiration, planning and a deadline, a dream with soon become a...


PARADISE. 

The world out there is truly AMAZING! 

 if you don't see it right now, you haven't opened your eyes wide 

enough or tried quite hard enough to live the dreams... 

I share my HOPE to all those who dare to 

 FACE their IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGES, 


to stand up to these CHALLENGES and eat your deepest fears

to live to see your own...


PARADISE.



I stepped outside into an amazing world, I didn't second guess myself, I lived to see Paradise.
 More challenging than before, the HimalayasX2012 is coming soon...
 Sichuan children together in their summer
 A lone cow walking round the river
 Meeting other souls that want to help you.
 Help when you needed it most.
 A ride of a lifetime. Away from the world that never changes, a road that always challenges you.
 Together in a new challenge and community because you went out there and tried on your own.
 Cultures, languages and people.
and Hope for tomorrow.
Partnership: ETE, Education Through Expeditions, United Kingdom



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Friday, February 17, 2012

HIMALAYASX2012 / EXPEDITION OF WESTERN CHINA / NEPAL / INDIA

Adventurer sets course of returning to the Himalayas with a second mountain bike expedition starting north of the Taklamakan Desert. The expansive territory of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region include desert crossings to reach high altitude desert plateaus (5000+ meter altitude) descending to the lush wildlife inhabited jungles of Nepal to the Himalayas of northern India is route for the HimalayasX2012. In 2011, Brian Perich completed a round-China expedition with twists in the journey. A 30-hour passenger ferry from Incheon, South Korea to Tianjin, China was only the beginning. Once landed in mainland China, he cycled in Beijing and boarded an overcrowded passenger train traveling 3240km to Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. After standing for 36 hours without access to a toilet, and drinking only boiled water while wedged between passenger cars and people, he endured the real experience of economy train travel across China. Liberated by local Han Chinese university lecturer-turned oil company executive, he sponsored  a free apartment to recover from blood clotting in his legs and feet, a free visit to a local hospital. Adding the generous assistance of Uyghur bicycle owners and mechanics repairing the brakes and reinforcing the make-shifted front racks...he launched into a 3200km (1800km) whirl through the Tian Shan Mountains, across the Taklamakan Desert en route through the southern Silk Road to the northern Himalayas and back to Kashgar, Urumqi and continuing stage two, across Chengdu, Sichuan to the Himalayas and south through Yunnan Province ending the expedition at Deqin, Yunnan. It was the most extreme adventure to date, beyond the borders, into the cultures, languages, people, he encountered genuine kindness, generosity, serendipity and magic that can only be found while traveling long distances using only a bicycle, foot and thumb on the road. 

This solo expedition is supporting several non-profit organizations:
 Local sponsorship: AN DAE GI at Gangneung Bike Mart, Gangwon-do, South Korea
 My sponsor knows mountain bikes and has built my recycled mountain touring bike.
 I will be using the same equipment from the HimalayasX2011
 Bicycle touring expeditions like a pro. Simple is reliable.
 Fully loaded Blackcat mountain bike, frame is aluminum alloy.
 Day and nights on expedition routes to complete in 60 days.














Updates to come....
Passing camel tracks in the Borohoro section of the Tian Shan Mountains, Xinjiang Uyghur 
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Location: Xinjiang, China

Monday, February 6, 2012

HIMALAYASX2011 / EXPEDITION OF WESTERN CHINA / EXPLORE!

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MEGA-CYCLING IN KOREA & HIMALAYAS X 2011, THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO WERE SUPPORTING!!!

Dear An Dae Gi  (Gangneung Bike Mart, Official 2011 Sponsor), my cyclist Friends, Family, Supporters...starting with correspondence with a friend & thanks to you all for supporting the Himalayas X 2011 Expedition, check back with links to the partnering, non-profit foundations which are making a difference in different corners of the world. ETE - Education Through Expeditions, UK and IDEAS - Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society of Canada. Two awesome non-profits to see their work in action, visit these links!


My friend and former colleage Lee Engdahl - Thanks for the advice & introducing great coffee to me (not knowing it existed previously) and for providing a single Blueline notebook that became an integral communication tool throughout my journey recording thoughts, names of people in places across the wide geographical spaces I traveled by boat (700km), train (3240km), plane (3500km), bicycle (3200km), walking and hitch-hiking (600km). It was a very long 60-day journey.

I wrote a letter directly to GoPro regarding replacement of the camera and memory, noting that I would take alternative measures, ordering through Amazon and having the shipment expedited and forwarded to Qingdao, China (costly and time consuming process) unless they chose to send a replacement immediately in lieu of sponsorship and a great showcase for their product on this Himalayas X Expedition 2011 across the Taklamakan Desert, northwestern Himalayas, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces entirely on a mountain bike. The HimalayasX (See Logo I prepared yesterday, will be printed on a 150cmX70cm banner and 1000 book size stickers). In the end, my Korean sponsor AN DAE GI provided a GoPro Hero camera for the journey and built an incredible recycled MTB expediton Blackcat mountain bike that has performed well beyond my expeditions.

Heavy 60kg bicycle and equipment load, hope the legs make it, the mind following the body and the lungs withstand the atmosphere pushing the metal at 15,000ft. It's going to be rough in sections, or most of it, but enjoyable to be free of Korea's grip for those 8 weeks as well. Thanks for everything, the morale support is appreciated to find in Korea. Having announced the expedition to cyclists in Korea (via Facebook) I hope to hear from more folks supportive, I enjoy the more adventurous and less competitive aspect of the sport in Korea. 

With definite thanks extending to a list of amazing individuals I've been fortunate to met through life's activities, all contributing and sharing a great deal to my experiences so far, a huge 'thank you' to you all...
And most importantly to several amazing individuals and non-profit foundations I support:

Rob Hill , Ostomate & Canadian and World 7-Summits Expedition Explorer at IDEAS  (Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society), Canada



Thank You: Gareth Zane Barker, Eddie Glayzer, Todd Mullins, Murray du Plessis, Brian Sullivan (writing and recording some inspiring music), Mechel Kai Christy (thanks already for contributing in 2010 and continued friendship too!), Julian Warmington (for promoting Cycling and Tri’s in Korea), Duncan Davidson (now in NZ) for starting Cycling in Korea 한국에서 자전거 타기  (facebook group, now with over 650 members! & many others that I have not mentioned that I have already spoken

 
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Location: China
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