Chinese girl, 12, completes 2,166km cycle ride from Chengdu to Lhasa

A 12-year-old girl has cycled from Chengdu to Tibet on National Highway 318, covering a distance of 2,166km in 26 days, the Hua Shang Daily reports.

During the journey to Lhasa, which is located at an altitude of 3,700 metres, the girl and others in the group crossed 12 mountains, the highest peak of which had an altitude of more than 5,000 metres.

The organiser of the activity said only 20 per cent of people who expressed their interest to him in cycling to Lhasa realised that dream, and the girl was the youngest cyclist he knows of to have made the journey.

Twenty-five people started on the trip in early July, but only nine of them reached Lhasa.

The girl, named Li Linjie, joined her father on the trip, before which her farthest distance to cycle was only 30km.