Heavy Metal around Mongolia and Central Asia

[Timolgra]

Baz and I push on slightly ahead of the others toward the pass, "f***ing awesome mate" he beams.

I'm so pleased he's back on the road with us......for now.

Not far to the top now!

And we're there, my GPS tells us we're at 15,305 feet!
My lungs say even higher when I roll a celebratory smoke

 

[Stewart H]

Absolutely stunning

Stewart

 

[Timolgra]

And so we crest the top of the Kyzyl Art Pass, a moment I'd been looking forward to for a very long time.

With a quick look back.

Just over the crest and we stop in awe.

A stunning place to be.

We wait for Pete and Rick in the shelter of a small gulley from the cold wind and it's time to press on.

 

[Timolgra]

I've made a mistake with the order and names of passes here, I know it doesn't affect the read for most but I'll need to edit that last couple of posts soon for my own benefit if nothing else.
not now though I'm off to my pit

 

[Jimmy]

the world is a big place

hi im new to this site but can i say what a great report.i look forward to reading this each time you update it.it gets me through the day.have just come back from the pyrenees with the wife,nothing on your scale but still a trip which was great.will write a report when i can suss this computer out.

 

[The Foolish Fellow]

REPORT

Thoroughly enjoying reading this , any chance of emailing me a selection of the missing photos that they are all on about !! ( ill not show anyone else )

 

[LivNorway]

I've made a mistake with the order and names of passes here, I know it doesn't affect the read for most but I'll need to edit that last couple of posts soon for my own benefit if nothing else.
not now though I'm off to my pit

If you need someone to make notes on your next tour I'll check my calendar to see if I'm free...


Liv.

 

[Homer1968]

Truly Brilliant Tim. Sat up stairs with a glass of red dreaming and thinking "What if"

 

[camel_landy]

Brilliant!

M

 

[peejay]

Simply awe inspiring report and pictures.
Thank you.

 

[cheffy]

Wow and I thought the Picos was exciting this year!! Good on ya guys, can't wait to read the next installment.

 

[mystic]

can't wait to read the next installment.

You can say that again.

Been a month to the day since your last post.

Keep checking every few days, but ZLICH, NADA!

In my doubting moments I'm half beginning to suspect that the lot of you hopped on a UK-bound Aeroflot flight out of Tajakistan!

 

[Norrie]

Give the guy a break he's been on his holiday's check out the TOSSER's in the TEJEDA 11 RR

Norrie

 

[mystic]

Ah well, that explains it!

but could have at least send all of us a postcard ......

 

[Timolgra]

Dropping down to 13,000 feet we come to the lake at Kara-Kul.
It's formed in meteorite impact crater which is reckoned to have landed there around 5 million years ago, the sky looked clear...for now.

Huddled out of the cold wind behind some rocks we meet these two British travellers trying to make tea.
They were heading in the opposite direction and both their Yamaha TTR600s had suffered a few problems already.
Great to meet you lads, sorry I've forgotten your names and hope Siberia and Magadan was all you'd hoped for.
The fence in the background marks part of the border with China.

The Pamir Highway.

 

[DavidHale]

Blimey Tim, I wish you'd stop posting this stuff. I really, really want to go there. Only more so.

 

[(RIP) petcul]

The Pamir Highway.

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Weren't you the lucky ones then that there was a warning sign. Did you nick it? It wasn't there when I passed

 

[Timolgra]

In Murgab we meet up with Tiff and her companion Annie who was riding pillion to Ullaanbaatar.

I've known and admired Tiffany Coates for many years, for those who aren't aware of her travels then I recommend you visit her website and find out what a real GS'er gets up to....well, at least partly

http://tiffanystravels.co.uk/

It was great to catch up with her in such a place. I helped with some repairs to her bike, being girlies she and Annie cooked dinner for us all.

I gained Tiff's trust in the morning by giving her all my left over money from countries we'd travelled through and which she'd need....then in a moments generosity I gave her my Russian map like a true gent.....it was some time later I recieved an email from her when she'd discovered the map had no roads on it, only railways

 

[Timolgra]

Weren't you the lucky ones then that there was a warning sign. Did you nick it? It wasn't there when I passed

Oh, wasn't it?

 

[Timolgra]

Off they go

We needed fuel and found some near the market place, it was filtered into our tanks from a bucket through an old rag.

Leaving Murgab we pass through one of many checkpoints where passports, visas and GBAO permits are logged into what must be a very important book.

Now there can't be many guys that make a GS look like a toy but this Swiss porker did.