Adventure Journal of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Rafting

Author: Shi Xiaojie
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: 1998 was China's year of exploration. That year, the media blew up the Tibet "World Great Canyon" exploration event. What came into people's view was a national-level exploration team with a glorious image. Their words, images, and achievements spread everywhere through national electronic and print media, everything appearing flawless. However, at the same time, another grassroots exploration team, ragged and disheveled, had been drifting on the Yarlung Tsangpo River for six months, out of supplies, yet still planning to cross the "impossible" canyon. What they had done was miraculously "censored" by most media, fading from the media's radar until four years later, the appearance of this book, "The Yarlung Tsangpo River Drifting Adventure." A black comedy-like farce, the struggle of a group of brave Chinese people, a conspiracy to castrate the truth. I know, what is needed is not heroes, but the truth.