{"id":3452,"date":"2010-12-30T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2010-12-30T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:07:32","slug":"kayaking-the-tsangpo-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3452","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking the Tsangpo Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems like once something is front and center<\/a> in your imagination, you find it everywhere. I finally ordered Atomic Robo (Vols. 1-3) – I opened up volume one and found myself at a Nazi installation in the Tsangpo Gorge! A few days later I was skulking around a local used bookstore<\/a> when I came across The Last River<\/a>, an account of the ill-fated 1998 kayak expedition that claimed Doug Gordon’s<\/a> life. Like the ijit I am, I didn’t buy it immediately; when I returned a week later it was gone. Luckily, it hadn’t sold – just moved to the ‘featured used books’ shelf at the main store – I snatched it up. The Last River gets 2 1\/2 out of 5 stars – in spite of (because of?) the extensive bios of the participants, I didn’t empathize with any of them. Some of it may also be my ambivalence about modern ‘extreme’ expeditioning. It was<\/em> extremely useful as an overview of some of the other western personalities kicking around that part of the world: Ian Baker, Kenneth Storm, et al. and as a decent timeline of western activity in the late 90s though.<\/p>\n

While wandering around the internet looking for info on other Tsangpo exploration, I found the video account of the 2002 expedition on Hulu. Some thoughts –<\/p>\n