Cycling on isolated plateaus is my passion

For the past 10 years I have been crazy about cycling on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Every summer vacation, I spend a month biking across the plateau.

In 2014, I set out on a cycle route with five other people in Ngari prefecture in the far west of the Tibet autonomous region. Our 2,000-kilometer route started in Lhasa in the east, passed through the northern part of the prefecture and ended in the west.

Dubbed the "top of the Roof of the World", the plateau, which has a small population, has no infrastructure and boasts incredible scenery. Travelers can see the snowy mountains heaped up, clean blue lakes, lots of animals - including sheep, yaks, donkeys and Tibetan antelopes - in the meadows by day, and clear, starry skies at night.