Take your passport and join Hans Rey on a mountain bike trip around the world in 192 pages. This book offers an overview of Hans Rey's 25-year career as a professional rider and mountain bike icon in some of the most beautiful places on Earth. Known for his cycling prowess, Hans not only explores places where no one had yet dared to put his wheels on, he also highlights the richness of cultures, inhabitants, and history. Often joined by other world-renowned riders and some of the best sports photographers, Hans delivers breathtaking images for a guaranteed change of scenery: from Machu Picchu to Peru, from the glaciers of the Alps to the Pyramids of Egypt, from the Himalayas to the jungles of Borneo... This book is also a journey through the history and evolution of mountain biking, freeride, and trial.

HANDS REY

Hans Rey was born in Germany in 1966. He now has Swiss and American nationality, he lives in Laguna Beach, California with his wife Carmen. Hans is a former world champion, he was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. He is widely regarded as a pioneer in the trial and freeride movement. As a professional rider and ambassador for mountain biking, he continues to travel the world and has already visited seventy different countries. In the mid-90s, Hans created the "Hans Rey Adventure Team" to discover the most remote places on the planet and ride where no one had yet set their wheels. He is always on the lookout for mysterious places steeped in history, capturing his exploits for the media.

UNPRECEDENTED

A chapter devoted to the Ubaye valley, which does not appear in the English version, where Cédric Tassan had the great honor of following Hans and Dan Atherton to two beautiful peaks in the Alpes de Haute Provence.

WHEELS 4 LIFE

WITH THE PURCHASE OF THIS BOOK, YOU FINANCIALLY SUPPORT WHEELS 4 LIFE

Created in 2005 by Hans Rey, Wheels 4 Life is a non-profit charitable organization which distributes bicycles in developing countries. Hans and his team carefully select the people who will benefit from this assistance. This donation is crucial because it represents a mobility that can work miracles: helping a doctor to provide more care, allowing a child to go to school, transporting crops, water, food more easily. All donations are handled with the utmost care. With minimum operating costs, the money collected is used almost entirely for the management of the bikes. In 8 years, Wheels 4 Life has distributed more than 5300.