Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A trip and pilgrimage done in memory of his mum and “on behalf of the dead”.
To a Mountain in Tibet
What you need to know before your trail
A travel memoir which is so much more than a travel memoir. Following his mother’s death, Thubron sets off to Mount Kailas in Tibet, a peak sacred to one-fifth of the world’s population and the source of four of India’s great rivers.
Kailas is significant as it is important to Tibetan Buddhists for religious reasons. By embarking on this pilgrimage, he takes the reader through the political and cultural history of the country and shows the people and the mystery that surrounds the customs, monuments and monasteries.
Travel Guide
Beginning in Nepal and crossing into Tibet, this is one amazing journey – not just physical but cultural and mystical journey deep into the heart of a secretive country and culture. The pilgrims who congregate on the slopes of
Mount Kailas are fascinating as are the number of buildings and monasteries which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt decades later. This is not trail on the tourist trail and is both emotional and poignant as well as deeply fascinating.
This is also a man looking for himself in the landscape of the region and he travels with utmost respect and love for what he sees around him.
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