The only north face on Earth you may reach by road — licensed, oxygen-supported, scholar-accompanied.
Foreign travellers may enter Tibet only through a licensed Chinese operator. We hold the licence, and with it the keys to the quiet hours: the Potala's calm circuit, dawn on the Friendship Highway, and the north face of Everest filling the windscreen at base camp.
Every Tibet journey travels with oxygen support, a doctor-vetted altitude plan, and a scholar who reads the murals the way others read headlines.
Base camp at dawn from the Tibetan side — the view no Nepalese itinerary can offer.
A measured circuit through the winter palace, timed to the prayer-hour lulls.
Morning tea with the monks of the greatest Tibetan monastery in Yunnan.
Barkor's circuit at dawn with the pilgrims — clockwise, unhurried, in step.
The sacred lake from the pass, with a picnic no wind can argue with.
A thangka painter's studio — mineral pigments, gold leaf, patience counted in months.
Barkor street with the dawn pilgrims, prayer wheels never stopping.
The Potala's measured circuit, timed to the prayer-hour lulls.
Sera Monastery as the monks debate — swift, theatrical, centuries old.
A Tibetan family kitchen — butter tea, highland barley, a slow fire.
The quiet side of Lhasa: heritage houses remade with oxygen-enriched rooms; on the Everest run, a monastery-guesthouse night in Shigatse.
Butter tea churned properly, highland barley ten ways, and the kitchens our own guides eat at.
May to October; Everest base camp adds two days and one very early sunrise.
The Tibet Travel Permit is arranged by us under our licence; fly in via Chengdu and ascend gently on an oxygen plan.
Chengdu as the low-altitude gateway and recovery city.
The imperial capital, before the crowds and after dark.
The slow city — and the only place on Earth to meet a panda before breakfast.
The future by day; the lake that taught China poetry by night.
An army asleep for two thousand years, and the road that went west.
A named tailor replies within 12 hours. Your first proposal within 24.