Kailash South Face

The southern, or sapphire, face of Kailash. Hindu's beleive the giant scar is a swastika. Bhuddists hold that it was formed during the defeat of a Bon (the pre-Buddhist religion of tibet) Shaman/Saint by the Buddhist Poet-Saint Mila Repa.

To the Holy Mountain: Ali to Kailash

October 20th 2007
After a short but well earned rest at Ali it was time to leave again. We had not quite got used to our luxury room with en-suite, breakfast and TV. This was good since we needed to be tough. We had passed the least inhabited stretch of our route across Tibet but the road ahead was not going to fall below 4000 metres until Lhatse, well over 1000km to the east and mostly along the same terrible uns ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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