![]() ![]() Putting their backs into steadying the arm through which the cable runs, they catch docking lines, winching these by hand against stanchions welded onto the deck. Chatting with Tenzin (Robert Thurman) they habitually cover smiles with their hands even though their mouths are already hidden with dustmasks. They are both happy-go-lucky and efficient. The ferry is piloted and docked by handsome, hearty young Tibetan women in work clothes. As we arrive the craft is in mid-stream, returning over the milky glacial blue-green water. ![]() The double-pontooned ferry runs along a cable fixed in the crotch of two crossed timbers on either side of the Brahmaputra. Through noon we dodge in and out of sight of it and after lunch we finally cross the “Lion-mouthed River” ten miles shy of Saga, where we’ll camp for the night. We break camp by eight-thirty in the morning and head northwest across the Tingri plain, picking up the southern road to Kailash, which turns due west at the Brahmaputra. In this excerpt from Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas, the party arrives at its destination. Kailash, the sacred axis mundi of central Asian cosmology. Haunted by the famed mountain since he was a young monk, Robert Thurman leads a small group of pilgrims overland to Tibet’s Mt.
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