first woman to ride across Afghanistan

[Grog]

This is very cool.

I do want to point out that Dervla Murphy crossed large parts of Afghanistan on a single-speed bicycle in 1961 or 1962, on her own. She is really, really awesome. You can read her first book Full Tilt, or one of her numerous subsequent books:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervla_Murphy