A Tibetan Trek of Faith: Yak Butter Blues

Brandon Wilson is an award-winning author and photographer, explorer and pear walker. He is author of other true travel adventure books including Along the Templar Trail and Dead Men Don’t Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa. His story about a year spent living in the Arctic, “Life When hell Freezes Over,” Appears in they Lived to Tell the Tale: True Stories of Adventure from the Legendary Explorer Club (The Lyons Press/Globe Pequot) His Spanish Pilgrimage photo essay appears in Naive and abroad; Spain: Limping 600 Miles Through History by Marcus Wilder, and his photos have won awards from National Geographic traveller and islands magazines. When Not writing, he enjoys inspiring others to discover life’s possibilities through long-distance walking. A voracious explorer of nearly one hundred countries, he is an expert long-distance, light trekker. He blazed the 2620-mile Templar Trail from France to Jerusalem, and has walked many of the world’s major pilgrimage trails; the famed Camino de Santiago across Spain (Twice), the via de la Plata, and St. Olav’s Way across Norway. He and his wife cheryls were the first Western couple to complete the 650-mile Buddhist pilgrim’s trail from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu, and he was the first American to traverse the 1150-mile via Francigena trail from England to Rome. Wilson,a member of the prestigious explorers Club, is a peace and human rights advocate.