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| Kailas is known as Meru in the Mahabharata. Here it is rises 5,000 feet straight up in a frozen monolith behind the ridge of the guardian peak of Jambayang, just like a huge Shiva Linga on the way to Khampo Sanglam La. Of all the views of the mountain, this is the most awe-inspiring. No man has ever set foot on its 22,028-foot summit except, say Tibetans, for the Buddhist monk Milarepa, who magically flew to the top. |
all text & images © Manoj Kheradia