In the meantime, I am preparing the next chapter on my visit to the 'lost mountain' of Muti Konka near the Yalong river

[Ragya Monastery]
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.
Scan of a colour negative, tweaked in Photoshop. From my visit to the Nujiang/Salween at Christmas 2009.
"Designed by heaven, made on earth ... a plea to the people who cut down trees to stop."