They travel light for 10 months, largely propelled by Nescafe and boiled noodles, along paved highways in Turkey, rutted dirt tracks in Uzbekistan, flower-laden meadows in Tibet and scree slopes in Nepal. She does this with her longtime pal Mel Yule, on donated titanium bikes, each equipped with four panniers for accompanying laptops, fleece thermal clothing, a “worm-like” red tent, bags of dried noodles and bike repair kits. Kate Harris is a Canadian Rhodes Scholar who studied the history of science at Oxford, dropped out of her microbiology PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and instead has found her métier as a modern-day explorer.Ĭhanneling diverse life experiences from such varied notables as Siddhartha Gautama, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and Fanny “Votes for Women” Bullock Workman, she explores the thought processes of the great existential explorers who made tracks and treks into new worlds. Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
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