Here's an interesting read for people who like bikes and adventure: http://web.archive.org/web/20041211045554/http://www.koopmann.lightup. net/crane/
It appears to be the full text of the book Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Nicholas and Richard Crane. I have this in hardback, and it's a very enjoyable book. They calculated that the point of land furthest from the sea in all directions (the pole of inaccessibility) was in the Chinese desert, and they rode there over the Himalayas from Chittagong on lightweight bicycles (handmade for them by Raleigh), carrying less than 18lb (8kg) of equipment. There are some photos on this page - you have to be patient and let it load. To bring this somewhat onto topic, their camera equipment was: Pentax MX camera. This was manual with mechanical shutter so it was trouble-free and we always had full control over the pictures being taken. lt was the same body as had travelled the length of the Himalayas in 1983, and indeed to the summit of Kilimanjaro. Eventually the light-meter shook loose, but only after a thousand kilometres of dirt road - most other cameras we have tried in the past fall to bits much quicker. Pentax ME body bought from Kenji Aoyagi in Golmud. Pentax lenses, 28 mm, 50 mm, 120 mm: 50 mm used for half the shots; 28 mm used for most of the rest, because people are nearly always close and scenery is nearly always massive; 120 mm rarely used excepting for cycling shots with compressed scenery. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
