Kham then and now. A photoblog showing how eastern Tibet looked in the 1920s and how the same places and people look now. Based on the explorations of botanist Joseph Rock.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Hsifan [Pumi] women, 1924
These two Pumi women accompanied Joseph Rock when he left Muli and started riding back to Lijiang. They help set up the camping ground in the fir forest some 12,000 feet up above Muli.
Dr Joseph Rock was an Austrian-American botanist who explored the Tibetan borderlands of Sichuan and Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. This is about my travels to revisit the places he described in the National Geographic magazine. Any questions? contact me at beijingweek AT gmail
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