Take a look at modern day adventurer John
Pilkington’s website. In this, you can see details of
the latest and most exciting of John’s journeys which took him up the
world’s twelfth longest river from the South China Sea to Tibet and
beyond. Starting among the rice paddies of Vietnam, he made his way via
Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Burma and through the gorges of China’s
Yunnan province, meeting river-people of seven nationalities along the way.
In a climax to the trip, he and two Tibetans reached the glacier on Mount
Guosongmucha, north of Tibet, where the Mekong rises at over 17,000 feet.