Q&A with Alpinist Kyle Dempster

Bicycling blog “The Bicycle Story” recently sat down with Piolet d’Or award winner Kyle Dempster to talk about his solo bike trip through Kyrgyzstan combining biking and mountaineering.

Having never been on a long distance bike tour, Kyle talks about how the adventure came to be. “Originally it was a trip my girlfriend and I had planned to do together, exploring mountains via bicycle. But then she got into a pretty bad ski accident in the spring. She broke her arm and decided that going on that trip maybe wasn’t the best thing. So I decided to go by myself. Kyrgyzstan, as a climber, is certainly a place that beckons a visit at some point.”

Read the rest of the Q&A with Kyle @ The Bicycle Story