Himalayan Pilgrimage

Himalayan Pilgrimage

Description change to:Mountains have always meant a great deal to me. I grew up in Austria, and I am grateful for the things that mountains have taught me - awareness, endurance, and discipline, all of which are so important in life. My interest in exploring the Himalaya was therefore motivated not only by geography and my profession as a photographer but also by a fact that had long intrigued me: that the highest mountains in the world seemed to have inspired the highest levels of the human spirit. Even during my initial visit to the Himalaya I found myself becoming less and less interested in climbing the highest peaks, and more and more interested in absorbing the wisdom of the people who lived at the top of the world. Symbolic of this dual sensation of height, the external and the internal, is the photograph on the jacket of this book, which shows the Lamas to be even higher than the mountains. Because of Tibet