Himalayan Passage--Seven Months in High Country of Tibet Nepal China India and Pakistan PDF
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SEVEN MONTHc TIBET, NEF HIMALAY AN PASSAGE I C H I N A ROUTE MAP Kashgar 1 - - - - - - - Air Route . Overland Houlr ~apitaCl II~ N miles a I TIBET CHANG TANG HIMALAYAN PASSAGE SEVEN MONTHS IN THE HIGH COUNTRY OF TIBET, NEPAL, CHINA, INDIA, & PAKISTAN By Jeremy Schmidt Photographs by Patrick Morrow - - - The Mountaineerslseattle O 1991 by Jeremy Schmidt, photographs by Patrick Morrow All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published by The Mountaineers 1011 S.W. Klickitat Way, Seattle, Washington 98134 Published simultaneously in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd., 1615 Venables Street, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 2H1 Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Cordee, 3a DeMontfort Street, Leicester, England, LEI 7HD Manufactured in the United States of America Edited by Linda Gunnarson Maps by Wendy Baylor Map borders by Jocelyn Slack All photographs by Patrick Morrow except as noted Cover design by Elizabeth Watson Cover photo: View of Mount Kailas from Chiu Monastery; inset: Baiba with Uighurs going to market on the road to Kashgar. The poem "On the Mountain Question and Answer" by Li Po was taken from Why I Live on the Mountain: Thirty Chinese Poemsfrom the Great Dynasties: A New Translation (San Francisco: Golden Mountain Press, 1958), C.H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh, translators. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schmidt, Jeremy, 1949- Himalayan passage : seven months in the high country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India & Pakistan / by Jeremy Schmidt : photographs by Patrick Morrow. p. cm. ISBN 0-89886-282-0 1. Himalaya Mountains Region--Description and travel. I. Morrow, Patrick. 11. Title DS485.H6S37 1991 915.49604--dc20 91-49 CIP Preface 1 Snowland 2 Lhasa Nights 3 Crossing to Kailas 4 The Chang Tang 5 The Holy Mountain 6 Bicycles to Burang 7 This Is Not the Silk Road 8 Kashgar 9 Karakoram Highway 10 Could This Be Shangri-La? 11 Baltistan 12 King's Paradise 13 Uttrakhand, Land of Gods 14 Makalu 15 Kanchenjunga Idyll 16 Breakdancing and Bayonets Acknowledgments LIST OF MAPS Himalayan Passage Route Endpapers Central Tibet and the Chang Tang 40 Mount Kailas Area 72 Western China and Karakoram Highway 128 Uttrakhand Sources of the Ganges 218 Eastern Nepal and Slkkim 240 To Wendy and Baiba ON THE MOUNTAIN: QUESTION AND ANSWER You ask me why do I live On this green mountain? I smile, no answer my heart serene. On flowing water peach blow quietly going far away. another earth This is another sky No likeness to that human world below. -LiPo, A.D. 701-762 (Translated by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh) Travel seerizs to me a splendid lesson in disillusion. -D. H. Lawrence (letter to a friend)
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