What Does It Take to Survive a 650-Mile Trek Across Tibet's Wild Himalayan Plains? Discover for Yourself in "Yak Butter Blues"

How strong is your will to survive? Discover the limits of human endurance in Yak Butter Blues, one couple's true story of an "impossible!" 650-mile trek across Tibet's brutal Himalayan plains. “Impossible” was what everyone told Brandon Wilson and his wife Cheryl when they began talking about walking a 650-mile ancient trail across Tibet. But those “impossibilities” only made them more determined. Their quest to become the first Western couple to trek this trail across the earth’s most remote corner was far from your usual travel fare — some even called it sheer lunacy. It was certainly far from easy or predictable. Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith (Pilgrim's Tales, November 2005, second edition, $16.95 pb, $26.95 hardcover) is an edge-of-your-seat tale of survival.

(PRWEB) June 29, 2005 -- How strong is your will to survive? Discover the limits of human endurance in Yak Butter Blues, one couple's true story of an "impossible!" 650-mile trek across Tibet's brutal Himalayan plains.

“Impossible” was what everyone told Brandon Wilson and his wife Cheryl when they began talking about walking an ancient trail across Tibet. But those “impossibilities” only made them more determined. Their quest to become the first Western couple to trek this trail across the earth’s most remote corner was far from your usual travel fare — some even called it "sheer lunacy." It was certainly far from easy or predictable.

Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith (Pilgrim's Tales, October 2004, $16.98 pb, $26.98 hardcover) is an edge-of-your-seat tale of survival and 2005 "IPPY" Award winner. It exposes the raw challenge of traveling deliberately, one-step-at-a-time on an incredible 650-mile (1000-kilometer) trek across the unforgiving Himalayan plains.

Join this determined man and woman, along with Sadhu, their Tibetan horse, as they set off to attempt to become the first Western couple to trek this ancient trail across the earth's most remote corner.

What begins as an adventure, quickly turns into so much more. Discovering that Tibetans cannot trek this same trail of faith from Lhasa to Kathmandu, they decide to walk it in their place–and prove to the authorities that it can be done without repercussions in China.

Their true story is a riveting tale of human endurance. The Wilsons face Tibet's ruthless environment head-on: the blistering winds, extreme temperatures, sandstorms, blizzards, high altitudes and the thinnest of air–made all the more challenging by exhaustion, hunger, illness, inflexible bureaucrats and implacable, trigger-happy Chinese soldiers.

Yak Butter Blues is a story of faith and the kindness of strangers. It provides a candid first-hand look at the lives of the Tibetan families who secret them into their homes–and at a culture teetering on the edge of extinction.

Yak Butter Blues is a tale of personal enlightenment, as the couple discovers a sense of greater purpose, wonder, a renewed faith and ultimately what it takes to endure.

Wilson leads you along on their physical, spiritual and emotional pilgrimage, through the highs and lows, across this startling land in this colorful, candid, caring and classic tale — on a 650-mile odyssey once called “Impossible.”

For a preview, visit http://www.PilgrimsTales.com.

Reviews:

"Brandon Wilson's writing is charged, alive, and a little threatening. Yak Butter Blues flickers insistently like a flashbulb afterimage in the mind long after the book is tucked away…." ~ Richard Bangs, Executive Producer/Director of MSNBC Great Escapes, author and co-founder of Mountain Travel/Sobek

"A soaring travel diary. It places the reader in the thick of the action every bit as well as Marco Polo transported Italians to China and, as it seems to me, better than Lowell Thomas led readers in the dust of Lawrence of Arabia…" ~ Joseph W. Bean, Book Reviewer, Maui Weekly (Hawaii)

"Any doubts I had about reading Yak Butter Blues melted away like yak butter under a hot sun as I came under the spell of Brandon Wilson's lively and vivid prose. He is a fine writer, perceptive, funny, and has a great way with words, making the book a whooping good read--an outstanding production." ~ Royal Robbins, legendary mountaineer

"A high-altitude tale of synchronicity, divine providence, begging monks, trigger-happy Chinese soldiers and dehydration." ~ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) from a feature article

Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith by Brandon Wilson

288 pages, Travel Narrative/Non-Fiction, 27 duo-tone photographs & maps;

Trade paperback - ISBN: 0-9770536-6-0 * $16.95;

Hardcover - ISBN: 0-9770536-7-9 * $26.95

New 2nd edition published by Pilgrim’s Tales.

Distributed by Ingram and Baker & Taylor.

Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith (an imprint of Pilgrim’s Tales) is available from bookstores, PilgrimsTales.com, Amazon.com, BN.com, Borders.com, Amazon-Canada, Blackwell's (UK), McGovern & Prentice's New Zealand Online Books, Seekbooks.au (Australia), or Amazon-Japan.

Order Special Author-Signed Copies At: www.PilgrimsTales.com.

# # #