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Director: Gaurav Jani
India (2006)
Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese
90 min.
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Riding Solo To The Top Of The World is the unique experience of a lonesome
traveler, who rides his motorcycle all the way from Mumbai to one of the
remotest places in the World, the Changthang Plateau, in Ladakh, bordering
China.

Situated at an average altitude of 15,000 feet, Changthang covers almost 30,000
square kilometers of Ladakh A land devoid of roads and with temperatures which
dip to minus 40 degree Celsius in winter.

As a one-man film unit, he astonishes you, filming the landscape he passes by
and the people he interacts with, capturing moments of beauty, pain, love,
hardship, self doubt and spiritual triumphs.

As a city slicker, his interaction with the nomads of the region, the Chang pas,
who live at the highest altitude used by mankind in the world, teaches him a
new perspective on life, as does the religious fervor he encounters.

The Hemis festival that comes once in twelve years, the Tashi Choling monastery
where the Chang pas pray to the Rain God and the ever-changing life of the
Chang pas, have all been shot in all their splendor and festivity.

The man and his camera travels even beyond the realm of practicality as he
films the monastery at Chemur, the very first time a camera has ever entered
the said monastery.

Riding Solo to the Top of the World, in essence, is a film about a journey that
begins as an adventure and ends with the man, Gaurav Jani, seeking the person
within.

(ENVIRONMENT)
* Meltdown
* Leave Nothing but Footprints
* Turf Wars
* Timber to Tibet
(ADVENTURE)
* Riding Solo To The Top Of The
World
* A Higher Calling
* Into the Thunder Dragon
* Farther than the Eye Can See
* Trio for One
* Fatal Game
(POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS)
* Thin ice
* Chulo, Choli ra Banduk - a stove,
a blouse and a gun
* Better to Have Been Killed
* The Forbidden Team
* Jashn-e-azadhi (How We
Celebrate Freedom)
* Siachen: A war for Ice
* Tibetan Refugees: A Struggle
Beyond Generations
(POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT)
* Journey of a Red Fridge
* Hami kunako maanche –
We corner people
* A Bridge over the Himalayas
* Yi khel gi kawa
(The Price of a Letter)
* Tingvong: a Lepcha village in
Sikkim
(CULTURE)
* Angry Monk
* Miss Tibet
* Closer than Tibet
* Bhedako Oon Jasto...in search
of a song...

* A man called nomad
* Call it Karma
* Daughters of Wisdom
* Bhutan - Taking the Middle Path
to Happiness

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