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Tibet & Nepal

Chapter 1: TIBET & NEPAL PAINTED & DESCRIBED
By Arnold Henry Savage Landor
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A travel narrative records journeys across high Himalayan terrain and adjoining valleys, offering vivid descriptions of glaciers, mountain passes, camps, and hazardous ascents alongside systematic notes on altitude and geology. Illustrated plates accompany observations of monastic life and popular religion—prayer-wheels, mani walls, temples, and ritual festivals—and portray everyday scenes of tented camps, weaving, and village games. Chapters balance adventure accounts of avalanches, crevasses, and forced marches with ethnographic sketches of local customs, social interactions, and material culture, while practical details about routes, equipment, and the difficulties of travel are interwoven with reflective impressions of landscape and hardship.

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Title: Tibet & Nepal

Painted & described

Author: Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Release date: January 29, 2024 [eBook #72818]

Language: English

Original publication: London: A. & C. Black, 1905

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TIBET AND NEPAL

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AGENTS IN AMERICA
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York

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YELLOW LAMAS WITH PRAYER WHEELS

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TIBET & NEPAL

PAINTED & DESCRIBED

BY A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR
PUBLISHED BY A. & C. BLACK
SOHO SQUARE·LONDON·W

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Published January 1905 [vii]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Yellow Lamas with Prayer-Wheels Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2. The Sacred Swings of Debi Dhura 16
3. An Awkward Moment 22
4. A Daramsalla 30
5. A Moment of Suspense 34
6. Red Lamas 44
7. Tibetan Man spinning Wool 46
8. A Nepalese Shoka 48
9. A Nepalese Lady 52
10. A Nepalese Woman 58
11. A Typical Native of N.W. Nepal 60
12. The Elfrida Landor Glacier, Nepal 64
13. Funnels in the Moraine Ice 68
14. The Armida Landor Glacier, Nepal 70
15. Author’s Camp, Nepal 74
16. One of the Lumpa Peaks and part of the Charles Landor Glacier 78
17. Deep Crevasses in the Glacier Ice 80
18. Rocks of all Sizes rolled with great Force down the Mountain Side [viii] 82
19. The Birth of an Avalanche 84
20. A Perilous Crossing 86
21. A. Henry Savage Landor and the Four Men who accompanied him on his Ascent to 23,490 feet above Sea-Level 90
22. The Highest Mountain Altitude ever reached by a Human Being 92
23. Within an Ace of being precipitated some 6500 feet on to the Glacier below 96
24. The Lumpa Basin and Charles Landor Glacier 98
25. A Balancing Feat 100
26. Moraine of Glacier and Mountains, showing how Clouds form on the Snow-Line 102
27. Erecting Chokdens (Cairns) on the Savage Pass 106
28. Night-marching in a Storm 108
29. A Sea of Mist 110
30. Elongated Shadows on a Sea of Mist 112
31. Concentric Circles of Radiant Beauty formed by the Sun shining through Mist 114
32. Clouds forming on the Snow-Line 116
33. Author’s Tents. A Camp in Nepal 118
34. The Tinker Pass, Nepal-Tibet 122
35. Flying Prayers and a Mani Wall 124
36. A Tibetan Baby Girl 126
37. A Tibetan Girl 128
38. Tibetan Woman of the Commoner Class 130
39. Tibetan Lady 132
40. An Old Lady and her Prayer-Wheel [ix] 134
41. Tibetan Dogs 136
42. A Tibetan Camp of Black Tents 138
43. Interior of a Tibetan Tent, showing Churn for mixing Tea with Butter 140
44. A Little Boy learning to Pray 142
45. Interior of Tibetan Temple 144
46. Tibetan Women weaving 146
47. Tibetan Women cleaning Wool 148
48. A Lama Standard-Bearer 150
49. A Race for the Kata 154
50. Tibetan Soldier at Target Practice 156
51. Tibetan Woman using a Sling for throwing Stones 158
52. Tibetan Games. Stone-Throwing 160
53. Tobogganing made easy 162
54. Tibetan Dance with Sword and Kata (Veil of Friendship) 164
55. A Typical Tibetan 166
56. Woman and Child praying before a Shrine inside a Tent 170
57. Tibetan Boy in his Gold-embroidered Hat 172
58. A Brigand 174
59. A Tibetan Spy in the Disguise of a Beggar approaching the Author’s Camp 176
60. “Chakzal, Chakzal.” The Tibetan Salutation 178
61. A Picturesque Old Fellow 180
62. An Ambidexter Lama Sculptor carving an Inscription on the Face of a Rock 182
63. A Weird Old Man of N.W. Nepal [x] 186
64. Over a Pass in a Coming Storm 188
65. Calling Two Followers lost in the Storm 190
66. Tibetan Goat 192
67. A Troublesome Descent on Vertical Rocks 194
68. A Phantom Lion of Gigantic Proportions 198
69. The Nui Glacier 202
70. Ascent to the Nui Pass 204
71. Observations for Altitude taken under Difficulties on the Nui Pass, Darma 208
72. A Shrine of Curious Buddha Images 212
73. The Sacrifice of a Yak 222
74. Goats carrying Loads of Borax 224
75. Yaks and Ponies conveying Wool across the Frontier 226

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