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...engage Ibrahim's men, Indian soldiers seasoned in the steaming jungles of Burma slogged up snowy mountainsides. Bombers took their missiles over Nanga Parbat, fifth highest mountain in the world. At the extreme east end of the front, at Ladak, a strange land where the people are Buddhists and feel more affinity to Tibet than Kashmir, an Indian division was flown in by planes that climbed 20,000 feet over the Himalayas...
...politely to a few peaks; but by that time he was far more interested in Tibetan art and in the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. No insulated tripper but a careful student of language and custom, he visited one Buddhist monastery after another in the borderland provinces of Sikkim and Ladak, seeking always Lamas, teachers, of the utmost excellence, and bringing always the conventional offering: unmounted precious stones...
Anthropological studies of the natives will be made by Mr. Bowles in the Ladak country, ju which the base camp will be located. The people are known as Ladaki, and are almost entirely of Tibetan stock. They are Lama Buddhists in religion. The famed Cashmir wool comes from Ladak...
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