author : Michael Buckleywebsite : http://www.himmies.com/Michael Buckley is an award-winning Canadian journalist who, amongst other things, wrote Lonely Planet’s first guidebook to Tibet (the first guidebook ever to Tibet) in 1986. A freelance travel writer and photographer, he has traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges. He has made two short documentaries about major environmental issues in Tibet and moves between Asia and Vancouver, Canada.