Question

Silk Road About the Characters

Answer 1

The Author: He is a Professor of Geography at Oxford University and an environmental consultant.

Tsetan: He is the owner of the car hired by the author for the journey, as well as being a tourist guide.

Daniel: He is an interpreter from Lhasa who travelled part of the time with the author.

Norbu: He is a Tibetan working at an academy in Beijing who wants to carry out the pilgrimage to Mount Kailash.

Answer 2

Answer:

Tsetan. Tsetan was a local Tibetan whose profession was to ferry visitors or tourists to places of interest in Tibet. The narrator, Nick Middleton had hired his cab to travel up to Darchen from Ravu. Tsetan was an expert in driving through the rugged Tibetan terrain and high altitude rough roads.