Cycling Silk uses bikes to enable the autonomous and adventurous exploration of remote transboundary wildernesses, and to reinforce the notion of the Silk Road as a landscape of continuity despite the borders that attempt to divide it. In a single uninterrupted push lasting at least a year, starting on the border of Italy and finishing in India, we will investigate five existing and three proposed TBPAs encompassing some of the world’s most sublime mountains:

1) Alpi-Marittime on the border of France and Italy

2) Caucasus TBPA at the nexus of Russia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan

3) An unnamed TBPA straddling Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

4) Proposed Marco Polo Sheep/Pamir Peace Park between Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan

5) Western Tien Shan TBPA in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

6) Proposed K2 Peace Park between China and Pakistan

7) Sagamartha/Chomolungma/Mount Everest TBPA in Nepal and China

8) Proposed Siachen Peace Park straddling Pakistan and India

Note: precise route will evolve as politics and prudence dictate!

"If you waited for the world to be quiet,"
says George Schaller, "you'd end up staying at home."


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