Mount Kailas's Journey To A Mountain

Mount Kailas is almost 22,000 feet high in elevation and 4,300 feet counter line to summit. It is the source of some of the largest and most important rivers in Asia: The Indus River, the Sutlej River, the Brahmaputra River, and the Karnali River. This great is located in Tibet, which has been taken over control by the Chinese since 1949, after the Chinese civil war. They control the borders and prohibit westerners from coming in to the country because they don’t want people there taking pictures and seeing what they are doing and happening in the country. Mount Kailas is also great in religious value. It is the holy mountain to four different religions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Bön. There is a lot of border trafficking for every year
At the beginning of the book To a Mountain in Tibet (2011) Colin Thubron writes, “Im doing this on account of the dead. Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken. Mine, without my knowing, starts not long ago, in a hospital ward, as the last of my family dies” (9). He answers this when someone asks him why he is doing the pilgrimage. He embarks on this journey to try to relive his sorrows. To help with the burden he carries with the loss of all of his family. Perfoming the Kora cleans the pilgrim and all of the family of sins. The journey is full of physical, mental, and spiritual challenges. By overcoming these, Colin Thubron claims that he is disburdened but it is believed that there is evidence in his book that show he is not completely disburdened and that he is lying to himself by saying he
It causes sorrow and sadness. It causes longing for the lost person to come back. It leaves people empty lonely. This happened Colin Thubron. It left him very empty because he lost all of his family members. He is the only one left. He is very lonely an expresses his lonely thoughts in the book. It doesn’t seem like he has anyone important in his life for him to value or keep him company. He reflects upon this. He writes while on this journey, “I wait, suddenly desolate. I feel sick at some imagined loneliness. Someone was trying to reach me, and I did not answer (155).” Long trips like this the one Thubron embarked give people a lot of time to think and ponder. Sometimes this can help and make people reflect on their lives and help them make them better; but sometimes it just causes more harm than goos like in Colin Thubrons case. All this his time he is spending remembering and missing his gone family members. He is not moving past their deaths and is instead just contemplating their deaths. This is defently not helpful and in no way is