Mt Kailas 1995
Kora Around Mt. Kailas, 1995 My dear friend, Jonathan Wright, who instilled the fascination and love of mountains and exotic, out-of-the-way places in me, died in an avalanche on a mountain called Minya Konka in 1980. He practiced Tibetan Buddhist and had a lifelong dream of going to Tibet. Minya Konka is in an area that is culturally Tibetan and geographically has always been in China. He came very close to his dream and didn't quite reach it. When my friend and mentor Skip Horner announced he was leading a trip to do a kora (circumambulation) around Mt. Kailas, the most sacred mountain in Tibet, I realized I had a chance to live out both my own and Jonathan's dream of being in Tibet. Mt Kailas, at 22,028 feet, stands in spectacular isolation in western Tibet. The mountain has the [...]