Word: tsangpo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seen from 27,000 feet, through the windows of the British-made Trident jet that the Chinese provided for the trip, the majesty and mystery of the Himalayas extend into snowcapped infinity. We glided over the headwaters of the great Mekong and Salween rivers, then followed the Tsangpo River, which is the source for the Brahmaputra in India. Near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the mountains rise brown, harsh and uninhabited from a narrow valley that grudgingly spreads to a width of a mile at the airfield where we touched down...