Tibet's Dawa Chu

The Dawa chu [ chu is Tibetan for creek ] is a tributary of the druksome river in eastern Tibet.
While we were there the Druksome and drucla river valleys were either very high or flooded and all the tibutary's were cranking few of them having been run before.

This one had seen a descent but we managed to put in further upstream than the last team, due to the willingness of are driver to take his truck up a difficult part of the dirt road that accesses the river.
The creek doesn't actually have a name so we named it Dawa chu after the name of our driver Dawa.
The creek proved to be much harder than it appeared from the road with extremely continuous class 5 white water.
At one point 2 of the team were getting worked at the same time in the same rapid but in different holes both managed to fight there way out, fortunate because swimming this creek was not really an option especially so because of the Altitude at 4000 m making everything harder physically.
This was one of the best creeks we did in Tibet. Set in a stunning valley.

The creek was also inside a national park where the Chinese officials did not allow kayaking, only hiking and sight seeing were allowed. I think this was mostly because they did not wish to have deaths with in the park and viewed kayaking as to dangerous.
So we had to run the river as somewhat of a secret mission, our driver saving us again when he was confronted by the Chinese at the take out, he managed to explain to them that we were just sight seeing, fortunately we were still high on the river at the time and the official's did not investigate further.