In “Lost Horizons” 国产吃瓜黑料 Reconnaissance Agent Mark Jenkins’s March Hard Way column, now on stands, Jenkins delves into the future of adventure, where it’s going and what’s still left unconquered, while tackling his own challenge of climbing Tibet’s 20,059-foot Nyambo Konka with friend Ross Lynn.
Mark Jenkins's Tibet Photo Gallery
For exclusive images of Tibet taken by Hard Way columnist Mark Jenkins, .“Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one narrow version of adventure,” writes Jenkins. “There are thousands. In fact, there’s one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.”
Jenkins has made a career out of traveling to the farthest reaches of the globe in his search for adventure, history, and human understanding. For the past seven years, Jenkins’ column, The Hard Way, and features stories for 国产吃瓜黑料 have explored the meaning and joy of the physical outdoor life. From the joy and pain of leaving home in to a clandestine journey across Afghanistan in to traveling the entire Burma Road in Jenkins has run the gamut. He is the author of three award-winning books: The Hard Way, To Timbuktu, and Off the Map and has received numerous writing awards.
Here, that Jenkins took on his recent Tibet trek.
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