Category Archives: Explorations
Interview with Wild China about Trade Routes
The Enduring Obsession and Importance of the Himalayan Trade Routes here
The Himalayas’ Guardian of the Pass
The face of Lhamo, 23, of Ala Dhotok (Stone Roof) at over 5,000 metres in Eastern Tibet. Her ‘community’ deep within the folds of the Himalayas involved nothing more than a loose trio of yak wool tents that rippled with … Continue reading
Mountain Eyes
One of the immortal faces of the mountains…even though only four-years old. A nomadic girl, whose predecessors were a clan of ‘guardians’ for trade caravans on the top of the world. Caravans of precious salt, tea, and wool passed through … Continue reading
Expedition Update: West, Up, North
-Back for the final instalments of our expedition along the Route of Wind and Wool. Leh is gentle pandemonium, but this is an overstatement really because it is more a case of Michael and I being overly sensitive to … Continue reading
Immortal Words of the Mountains
Another in the series of ‘mountain immortals’ and their equally timeless words. Neema, at 89 years old, says of his days upon the Himalayas’ Tea Horse Road: “The mountains and mules had a contract with eachother. If we traders didn’t … Continue reading
Tea Horse Road Portraits Appearing in China’s GoKunming
A series of portraits that I took along that immortal route and obsession of mine, The Tea Horse Road. The series is simply called ‘The Immortals’. Gokuming’s article and the portraits appear here
New Article in About.com About the Tea Horse Road…
Was asked to do an article about those stunning and often tortured Himalayas for About.com on trade and those icons of the mountains, the people. Article here
Mountain Eloquence
I’m reminded of some simple mountain-borne brilliance. The deliverer of the words was as simple and straightforward as the words themselves. The old Himalayan brigand and trader’s words about the mountains rings truer on every journey through them that I … Continue reading
Expedition Update: Video of Parang La Descent
A little video clip here shot as our team descends the magic monochrome of ice that is the Parang Pass. This pass was as notorious for its brigands and bandits as it was Mother Nature’s ‘moods’. Upon summiting the … Continue reading
South China Morning Post Feature of our expedition – “The Pass Masters” –
My feature of the ‘Route of Wind and Wool’ in full tea fuelled ‘colour’ here