Word: transhimalayan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit Tashi-lunpo, monastic citadel of the Tashi Lama, holiest man in Tibet since the flight (in 1904) of the Dalai Lama. All these things he accomplished. He interviewed the Tashi Lama himself, witnessed "devil-dances" in the sacred city, set the first European foot on the Transhimalayan range. But Traveler Hedin's graphic descriptions, no less graphic sketches, while they make good reading for armchair travelers, will lure few to follow him to a chilly land where every countryman goes armed, where the chief fuel is yak dung, where dead bodies are exposed for the vultures to pick...
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