Part guidebook, part travelogue but definitely all adventure, join author Richard Williams and photographer Manish Maharja as they cross the Nepalese Himalayas on a mountain bike. Originally from Pembrokeshire, but now resident in Switzerland, Richard details this most remarkable of journeys through some of the most stunning landscapes and environments the world has to offer. Along with the remarkable textual and photographic account, the book also contains maps, details about accommodation, places of interest and plenty of other information you might need if you fancy undertaking the journey yourself. Take The Road and embark on a once-in-a- lifetime experience that you will never, ever forget.

Richard Williams was raised on a farm in north Pembrokeshire and lived for a number of years in Sydney, Australia, in his early twenties. Later, following a degree and master’s degree in Development Studies from Exeter University and LSE respectively, Richard worked as a technical writer at the newly-created Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Previous to writing, Richard co-founded Switzerland’s Holy Cow! Gourmet Burger Company and Cardiff’s The Grazing Shed, providing him with endless material for this, his second book, The Sheriff of Geneva, which has already received endorsement from Daren King.