With practical information on visas, route planning and essential words and phrases, this Bradt guide to Greater, or Ethnic, Tibet includes a chapter on routes through the northern and eastern areas of Kham and Amdo. The Land of Snows boasts opportunities for the highest trekking in the world, with panoramic landscapes dotted with Buddhist monasteries clinging to sheer hilltops and nomadic Tibetans herding yaks on pasture land.