Ebook {Epub PDF} To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron

 · Novelist and acclaimed travel writer Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road, , etc.) chronicles his trek to Mt. Kalias, "the most sacred of the world's mountains." The book opens with the author traveling across northern Nepal toward Kailas, a 22,foot mountain in Western bltadwin.ru: HarperCollins e-books.  · To a Mountain in Tibet tells the simple story of a secular pilgrimage to the sacred slopes of Kailas in the western Himalaya. Travelling on foot Author: Sara Wheeler.  · New York Times bestselling author Colin Thubron returns with a moving, intimate, and exquisitely crafted travel memoir recounting his pilgrimage to the Hindu and Buddhist holy mountain of Kailas—whose peak represents the most sacred place on Earth .

Even today, under Chinese domination, the people of four religions circle the mountain in devotion to different gods. Colin Thubron reached it by foot along the Karnali River, the highest source of the Ganges. His journey is an entry into the culture of today's Tibet, and a pilgrimage in the wake his mother's death and the loss of his family. Novelist and acclaimed travel writer Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road, , etc.) chronicles his trek to Mt. Kailas, "the most sacred of the world's mountains."The book opens with the author traveling across northern Nepal toward Kailas, a 22,foot mountain in Western Tibet. To a Mountain in Tibet [Colin Thubron] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Colin Thubron is the intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented. There is a telling moment in one of Colin Thubron's early films. He is travelling with a BBC crew along the Silk Road in China when he. Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek.

Now in his seventies, famed travel writer Colin Thubron left his wife and home in England and trekked to a holy mountain in Tibet from Nepal. It was a personal journey. From Nepal, where his father hunted bear and big cats eighty years before, Thubron headed to Kailas, or Gangs Rinpoche, the holy mountain, the “precious jewel of snow.”. The sacred Mount Kailash, Colin Thubron's objective in To a Mountain in Tibet. Photograph: Craig Lovell/Corbis. The sacred Mount Kailash, Colin Thubron's objective in To a Mountain in Tibet. In To a Mountain in Tibet, Colin Thubron reached Kailas on foot along the Karnali River, the highest source of the Ganges. Combing travel book and memoir, Thubron leads the reader into a desperately wild and beautiful landscape, the culture of contemporary Tibet and on a personal pilgrimage in the wake of his mother's death.