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This is the account of any voyage to the holiest pile on the planet, the solitary top of Kailas in Tibet, sacred to one-fifth of humankind. To both Buddhists and Hindus it is the mystic center of the world and a historical site of pilgrimage. It has never been climbed. Right now, under Chinese domination, the folks of four religions circle the pile in devotion to different gods. Colin Thubron come to it by foot along the Karnali River, the best way to obtain the Ganges. His voyage is an access into the culture of today's Tibet, and a pilgrimage in the wake his mother's fatality and the increased loss of his family. He undertakes it to be able to mark the event, to leave an indicator of their passage. He also explores his own dependence on solitude, which has shaped his job as a writer---one who vacations to places beyond his own background and culture, writing about them and about the voyage. To a Mountain in Tibet is at once a robust travelogue, a fascinated come across with alien beliefs, and a romantic personal voyage. It is a haunting and beautiful booklet, a rare mixture of discovery and reduction. In its evocation of surroundings and variety of exotic individuals, of mythic and religious traditions foreign to our own, it is a spectacular accomplishment from our biggest living travel copy writer, an artist of formidable literary gifts, uncanny intuition, and wondrous information.
