A freshman borrows money to fulfill his dream: cycling 2,166 km along the Sichuan-Tibet route

Last updated 2026-11-08 — A photo of Tan Yao taken at the Tibet border after cycling there. He cycled from Chengdu to Lhasa, then hitchhiked all the way to Lanzhou before returning to Wuhan. This summer vacation, Tan Yao, a 2011 student from the School of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wuhan Polytechnic University, finally fulfilled his dream of cycling through the Sichuan-Tibet route. During this 37-day journey, he cycled for 25 days, crossed 12...