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Ene 28 2011 Ghyaru, the valley of magical fairies and dragons

For: Juancho Sanchez / Gustavo Castelão (text / photos)

One thing I love about the mountain is that every morning you can re-breakfast with a good conscience. One gets up early and in pain, Coffee goes blind, cereal, muesly, porridge, fruit, sweet, Tibetan bread with honey and things like that ... And halfway through the day, to and re-fill to top.

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Ene 24 2011 Will: «celestial» burials and the Spanish child-lama

For: Ricardo Coarasa

The monk said a cliff above 4.000 meters, east of Sera monastery, where there is evident a rustic stone house. Tibetans, account, carry their dead at dawn to solitary cliffs like this to butcher them with an ax. The vultures and crows do the rest. In the land of no snow cemeteries.

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Ene 21 2011 Ascent to heaven of the Annapurna

For: Juancho Sanchez / Gustavo Castelão (text / photos)

One of the most breathtaking of the mountains is his silence. Last night, at daybreak, bladder woke beset by, and ended up sitting, protected by twelve blankets, enjoy nothing and looking at the sky with binoculars little substance that I bought in Pokhara.

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Ene 14 2011 Annapurna, the challenge of the mountain

For: Juan Ignacio Sanchez / Gustavo Castelao (text / photos)

"But where will they go now, if four in the afternoon and at half past six is night? Not create problems and sleep today. Morning walk as they please ". The man's face is tanned by the claws of the mountain, and emphasizes its argument point-blank shooting: “Además, is a blizzard ".

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Ene 10 2011 The birthday party is not Tibet
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

The Chinese effort to celebrate in style on the establishment of the Lhasa Tibet Autonomous Region is, for the native population, something like the non-birthday of Alice in Wonderland. Pure paradox: a party where balloons only (Chinas banderolas, floats, an imposing stand in front of the Potala, slogans everywhere) and a cake with candles without blowing.

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Ene 09 2011 Roadmap for the conquest of the Himalayas
For: Juan Ignacio Sanchez and Gustavo Castelão (text and photos)

Trekking el de los Annapurnas, walking at higher altitudes than can a human being before having to use climbing equipment to keep climbing, is the most wonderful adventure I had in my life.

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Dic 27 2010 The odyssey of the toilet in Lhasa
For: Ricardo Coarasa (text and photos)

At a glance, first thing that strikes is that the Barkhor kora is, while spiritual journey, a succession of street stalls, something like "golden mile" of Lhasa. A few feet of the pilgrims who wear their rosaries, of the monks who kneel extending his arms on the bare ground, merchants trading with tourists the price of souvenirs.

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