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.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Tiger Leaping Gorge, 1994
"In many places the river is only 20 yards in width and is one continuous series of cascades and rapids. The actual depth of water must be enormous, for the vast placid stream is here compressed into a narrow ribbon of white foam." - Joseph Rock
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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