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.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
View of Minya Konka (Gongga Shan) from the Tsemi La pass
The following pictures are all scans of slides from my first trek to Minya Konka in the mid 1990s. Later on there are some recent pictures of the Erlang Shan tunnel.
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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