Crazy Kunzum La – A tough run in the Himalayas

Adventure Rider Issue #18

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Dunns swamp – Another great secret location
• Trials and tribulations with Karen Ramsay
• Reader’s Ride – The Flinders
• Domestic bliss – At home with the Ducati Multistrada Enduro
• KTM Rallye 2016 – KTMs all over the place
• Across Australia – From the Indian to the Pacific
• Off-road Test – Husqvarna 701 Enduro
• Ladies only – BMW Off Road Training
• Crazy Kunzum La – A tough run in the Himalayas
• White sand to red dust – A PLB story
• Industry Player – Geeze Goldhawk
• BMW F800GS – Off to the Safari Enduro
• Riding the Cordillera Blanca – South America at its best
• It’s What We Do
• Tour Of Duty: A Victorian three-day

Riding one of the world’s most basic motorcycles through one of the world’s harshest environments proved no problem for Chris Shaw. He tells of just a single day out of a life-changing journey.

At sea level there’s an effective oxygen content of 20.9 per cent but at 4500m it’s almost halved. Any kind of exertion results in a sensation not unlike drowning on dry land.