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I traveled to Mount Kailash in 2006.

Tibet Kailash 08 Kora 03 Kailash With Lha Chu valley To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one’s distance; to understand its form, one must move around it; to experience its moods, one must see it at sunrise and sunset, at noon and at midnight, in sun and in rain, in snow and in storm, in summer and in winter and in all the other seasons. – Lama Anagarika Govinda: The Way of the White Clouds. From just to the west of Darchen, we had a good view of the two sets of high cliffs forming the Lha Chu valley.

Tibet Kailash 08 Kora 03 Kailash With Lha Chu valley

Tibet Kailash 08 Kora 26 North Face The foothills suddenly step aside and give the pilgrim the full view of Kailas in all its grandeur. The view is absolutely overwhelming, and according to the scriptures, it is on this spot that those who are initiated into the rituals and meditations of the respective Tantras should perform their devotional practices on the great Mandala of Supreme Bliss. – Lama Anagarika Govinda: The Way of the White Clouds.

Tibet Kailash 08 Kora 26 North Face

Tibet Kailash 08 Kora 27 North Face Sunset Just before we had our dinner, I went to use the rocks and watched a beautiful sunset on the North Face of Kailash.

Tibet Kailash 08 Kora 27 North Face Sunset

Tibet Kailash 09 Kora 07 We have arrived at the Dolma La We made it! Here we are on the Dölma La (5630m), with Dölma’s Rock behind to the right. The temperature was 1C. We only lingered for about 15 minutes because we knew we had many hours more before reaching Zutulpuk.

Tibet Kailash 09 Kora 07 We have arrived at the Dolma La

Tibet Kailash 06 Tirthapuri 11 View From Pass On Kora After the hot springs the trail climbs past a cremation area consecrated to Yeshe Tsogyal, and then reaches a miniature version of Kailash's Dölma La, marked with mani stones, prayer flags and a large collection of yak horns and skulls. To the left is the end of a recently constructed over 200m long mani wall, which points to the northeast directly towards Mount Kailas. The wall was the end result of a demon firing an arrow at the guru. He stopped the arrow's flight and transformed it into this wall.

Tibet Kailash 06 Tirthapuri 11 View From Pass On Kora

Tibet Kailash 07 Manasarovar 02 Seralung Mani Rocks A row of mani rocks shine in one of the brief sunny breaks next to Seralung Gompa on the shores of Lake Manasarovar.

Tibet Kailash 07 Manasarovar 02 Seralung Mani Rocks

Tibet Kailash 10 Kora 08 Gurla Mandhata From Kora End When we emerged onto the Barkha plain (4610m), Gurla Mandhata (7728m) came out of the clouds for a few minutes. Yes, it does exist. Gurla Mandhata was first climbed in 1985 by a Chinese-Japanese expedition.

Tibet Kailash 10 Kora 08 Gurla Mandhata From Kora End

Tibet Kailash 11 Back 07 Listening to Ipod With Peiku Tso behind - Waiting For Landcruiser To Be Fixed Pete and I rocked to his Ipod as Sadim and crew fixed the Land cruiser near Peiko Tso. Cool!

Tibet Kailash 11 Back 07 Listening to Ipod With Peiku Tso behind - Waiting For Landcruiser To Be Fixed

Tibet Kailash 12 Flying From Kathmandu 06 Manaslu, Peak 29 and Himal Chuli From left to right is Manaslu (8163m), Peak 29 (7871m, also called Ngadi Chuli) and Himal Chuli (7893m).

Tibet Kailash 12 Flying From Kathmandu 06 Manaslu, Peak 29 and Himal Chuli


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