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Season Greetings: 2009

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2009 is gone and we look forward to 2010! I plan to journey to Mt. Kailash in the summer of 2010. I'm looking for 1-3 more people to join this trip. Please see trip announcement (or below) for more information. Let me know if you are interested. For now, have a festive holiday season and best wishes for the coming year. May your spirit rise higher than the mountains! Click on the greeting card to play the movie! Be patient. Since I host it on my webserver, the streaming is slow so it can take about 3-4 minutes for the video to start.

Note: If you have difficulty playing the movie, you can download the file to your desktop by saving this file: Season Greetings 2009. It is a 40MB mp4 file and should be playable in any Flash player.

 

Journey to Holy Mountain: Mt. Kailash, 2010

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Journey to the Holy Mountain: Mt. Kailash,Tibet 2010

(Simikot Trek, Parikrama/Kora, Guge Kingdom, Tibetan Plateau, Rongbuk/Everest Base Camp)

Pasang: "Tinle, what are pilgirims?"

Tinle: "Religious people who walk!"

 

  1. Introduction
  2. Itinerary
  3. Route Maps
  4. Costs and Expenditures
  5. Eligibility and Expectations
  6. Fitness Schedule
  7. Trekking Gear List
  8. High Altitude Medicine Guide (Extremely important to read this. You will spend most of your time above 4000m and going up to 5300-5600m).
  9. Misc. things for me to do:
    • Research Ngari in more detail
    • Check up China visa procedure
    • Talk to Navraj/Dendi about their plans for summer
    • Look at FF miles blackout dates
    • Ask agency for updated price quote
    • Read more about the Humla region
    • Clean up the camera/lenses
    • Rabies...
 

My Land and My People

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Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso (H.H. The Dalai Lama)Image

"I was born born in a small village called Taktser, in the northeast of Tibet...It was a beautiful country. Our village, which lay on a little plateau, was almost encircled by fertile fields of wheat and barley; and the plateau, in turn, was surrounded by ranges of hills which were covered by grass -- thick and vividly green."
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--Erasmus

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Tiger of the Snows
Tenzin Norgay

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"I dug a hole in the snow and put down some small sacrifice gifts- symbolic things that I had brought with me that our belief - my wife and I are Buddhists - demands. Preferably I wanted to sacrifice my clothes and equipment, but now that wasn't possible. Instead I left a few biscuits, some chocolate and a blue-pen. The blue-pen had just a little piece left that my youngest daughter Nima had sent with me to sacrifice. It was a greeting from my family. Nima had earnestly asked me to put the pen on the summit of Mount Everest. It was a quite ordinary pen, but one of my daughters dearest things...I had climbed by mountain, but I must still live my life...It has been a long road...From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax."
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