[torryquine]

Nice article this (from one of the best radio programmes broadcast in the UK), and some wonderful Victorian photos of the Himalayas...
http://newsvote.bbc....ent/6670375.stm

[kullukid]

Great photo's Torry, thanks for that.......definitely gives you an idea of the scale of things! KK

[cyberhippie]

These guys were real adventurers, no Goretex and helecopters in those days!

[YETI]

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His journey to Ki, accompanied by 60 bearers - a cavalcade of yaks, sheep and goats, boxes of glass photographic plates and a large supply of Hennessy Brandy - was a three-month trek of epic proportions.

True adventurers, definitely. This route is now easily done by Jeep Safari from Manali. Amazing how much more accessible the Indian Himalayas are these days. I'd still recommend a large supply of Brandy, mind you.

Nice to see that Ki Gompa hasn't changed all that much - there's a few buildings at the bottom of the hill now but things aren't hugely different.

Great article, tq.

[dzibead]

Wow!  Here's some follow up info about Bourne:

http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/0933286368 (I just ordered the book)

http://www.harappa.c...urnesamuel.html

http://www.eastman.o...e_sld00001.html