Reinhold Messner, [who declined an offer from the Chinese - TopicsExpress



          

Reinhold Messner, [who declined an offer from the Chinese government to climb Kailash in the 1980s], said, If we conquer this mountain, then we conquer something in peoples souls... Known as the Axis of the World (axis mundi), its four faces roughly align with the compass rose, and its foothills supply the water of Southeast Asia: the Indus River, the Sutlej River, the Brahmaputra River, and the Karnali River. In religion, its steps are thought to connect Heaven & Earth.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:13 +0000

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