BIKES ON BIG MOUNTAINS
Perspective, mood, and the definition of a big day climbing: it’s incredible how rapidly these change once outside the comfort zone. The morning’s plan to explore just the latter by riding up the Babusar Pass had soon evolved. Straying just off the main road near the town of Chilas, we had set out to ride the towering pass located in Pakistan’s mountainous northern region.
An unbroken 3000-metre climb spread over 40 kilometres, it was set to be a challenge on heavy touring bikes.
The allure of this road had been
