Crown of the World - The Snow Leopard Chronicles, Nepal
Crown of the World or The Snow Leopard Chronicles [Gokyo Lakes Trek, Nepal - Sagarmatha National Park] Cho-Ou and her entourage - view from the 5th Gokyo Lake[5000 m]. Cho-Oyu alt: 8201 m “Days and months are the travellers of eternity. So are the years that pass by....I myself have been tempted for a long time by the cloud-moving wind – filled with a strong desire to wander.....I walked through the mists and clouds, breathing the thin air of high altitudes and stepping on slippery ice and snow, till at last through a gateway of clouds, as it seemed, to the very paths of the sun and moon, I reached the summit, completely out of breath and nearly frozen to death. Presently the sun went down and the moon rose glistening in the sky.” ~~~Basho “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” 12-19-2011 – ...