Posted in China, India, Tibet on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Violence has broken out in Lhasa, Tibet, as police forces there have come down hard on a peaceful protest to mark the anniversary of the failed uprising 49 years ago that led eventually to the exile of the Dalai Lama. First reports were coming in in the last few days that the military was [...]
Posted in Nepal, Tibet on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I was a little surprised yesterday to receive an email requesting permission to use one of my photos for a “news” article! This request came via Flickr’s messaging system from another Flickr user claiming to represent a crowdsourced news organization that creates its stories from user generated content. I was a little skeptical [...]
Posted in Tibet on Oct 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
So we have just descended from the cold, arid altitude of the Tibetan plateau to the warm, humid lowlands of Nepal and I will follow up with a post about the whole border crossing from Zhang Mu into Nepal, but I wanted to just post a couple parting thoughts on the Tibetan leg of our [...]
Posted in Tibet on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
We woke up today at the foot of Mt. Everest (Qomolangma in Tibetan, mother of all mountains) after an amazing couple of days. We are still in our Land Cruisers and the road up to Everest was pretty crazy, but the road down has been even better/worse depending on your point of view.
But I’m [...]
Posted in China, Tibet on Oct 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
We have both mentioned a couple times about people’s interest in my tattoo while here so I thought I would just go into a little bit more detail about that.
First, if you are reading and don’t know anything about my tattoo, it’s a work in progress that I have been seeing Bryan at Apocalypse [...]