Food and water.

Everything that's needed for the expedition will be brought on our bicycles and we will be 100% self sufficient.

We have been discussing the pros and cons in going for "high-tech" expedition food and have come to the conclusion that we prefer to buy everything on the local market. The members of the expedition are all used to the surroundings and agree on the fact that the negative aspects of bringing the food in from outside will outweight the positive ones. The costs and hassles for transport and big and bulky packages are problems we wanna avoid. The food will consist of tsampa, two-minut noodles, powdered milk, sugar, salt, army bisquits, dried fruit, nuts and other goodies we'll be able to find in the shops in Qiemo before taking off for the wilderness. In addition to the this, we'll bring some electrolytes, carbohydrate powder and some other high energy stuff.

Water will be worth it's weight in gold. No rivers are flowing out from the Chang Tang and the ones we'll cross along the way flows into lakes with brackish, often undrinkable water. Earlier experiences in the area have proven that snow melting is the only alternative and sometimes that involves long detours to north faces of mountains and higher altitudes to find snow.

There are no combustible material on the plateau and all fuel for snow melting and cooking has to be brought in from the outside. In our case it will be gasoline for our multi fuel stoves.