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About the Author

Siân Pritchard-Jones and Bob Gibbons met in 1983, on a trek from Kashmir to Ladakh. By then Bob had already driven an ancient Land Rover from England to Kathmandu (in 1974), and overland trucks across Asia, Africa and South America. He had also lived in Kathmandu for two years, employed as a trekking company manager. Before they met, Siân worked in computer programming and systems analysis, but was drawn back to the Himalayas after her first trek, the Annapurna Circuit, en route from working in New Zealand.

Since then they have been leading and organising treks in the Alps, Nepal and the Sahara, as well as driving a bus overland to Nepal. Journeys by a less ancient (only 35-year-old) Land Rover from England to South Africa provided the basis for several editions of the Bradt guide Africa Overland.

In Kathmandu they have worked with Pilgrims Publishing on books covering the Kathmandu Valley, Ladakh and a historical look at the Kailash-Guge kingdom. More recently they have worked with Himalayan Map House, producing cultural trekking guides covering much of Nepal.

In 2007 they wrote the Cicerone guide to Mount Kailash and Western Tibet, as well updating the Grand Canyon guide. During 2011 they revisited Tibet, this time driving the same old Land Rover back from Kathmandu to the UK overland via Lhasa, through China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Western Europe.

It was with great relish that they returned to one of their former trekking haunts in Nepal – the Annapurna region – to prepare this guidebook.

Other Cicerone guides by the author

The Mount Kailash Trek