#94 - Tibet or Not Tibet: An Omnishambles
Episode 94 is the Tibet tapes. Magnus and Tim finally made it to the Park World Tour races in Tibet, just five days late, after a permit saga that ended with a man in a dark coat handing over their papers in a Beijing hotel lobby, taking a photo of them and running off. Ralph, sick at home in Oslo, delivers the verdict: omnishambles.
- Five days of visa limbo in Beijing, a legendary Volvo car-hire guy with a printer, and the airport manager we never got to meet
- Lhasa at 3,600 m: Tim on the hotel oxygen machine, Magnus racing Tomas Krivda up a 4,900 m peak for a Coke, and two yak chases
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