- Title: Going To Extremes: The Silk Routes (Tibet)
- Date: 11th April 2005
- Description:Geographer Nick Middleton,an Oxford academic with an interest in desertification,explores the hostile lands that lie on the ancient border between East and West,which,for millennia,could be crossed only via a network of ancient caravan ways known as the Silk Route. (episode two) Mid-latitude man Nick Middleton continues to explore the hostile lands that lie on the ancient border between East and West,taking part in one of the world's hardest pilgrimages: the circumnavigation of Mount Kailash in Tibet,the holiest mountain in Asia. It's an 18-kilometre trek at extreme altitude,with the highest pass 6,700m (20,000ft) above sea level. In preparation for Nick's ordeal,the Drochba nomads teach him what life is like on the very edge of altitudinal sustainability. But as he travels higher and higher,Nick's problems with altitude really begin to kick in... Prod/ Dir: Anderw Palmer; Exec Prod: Zam Baring
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: KEO Films
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Keo Films Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:11/04/2005
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s