Allium nanodes encountered on a wind swept pass in 4500m
Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, also an important medicinal in Tibetan Medicine and TCM
Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, an high altitude specialist
Alexanders Rhubarb flowers are protected from wind, weather and radiation, all intense in high altitude.
Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
Pombu or Dekyi Gompa just north of Sumdo (4200m / 14,000ft).
Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
A ten foot prayer mill
The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.
The Garuda (Tibetan: Khyung), biding down on a snake, will be mounted behind the head of the Buddha statue.
We had our picnick lunch next to bags of juniper boughs that will be used as filling for the statue.
Goats and prayer flags
Tibetan farmers cutting their barley with scythes
Aletris nana
Lilium lophophorum, a small Lily around 15 to 30cm tall
Lilium lophophorum
An orchid, maybe an Orchis
An Amanita close to A. pantherina near Dabpa, Chinese Daocheng.
Suillus cavipes growing in Yading