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Adventure and Travel blog that ventures the world in search of amazing destinations, beautiful views, wonders of the world, killer waves, huge mountains, and amazing adventures.

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Check out my main blog Beethovensteaparty. It is where I do most of my posting of all the stuff I love now. It is Architecture, Design, Cars, Motorsports, Cafe Racers/Bikes, Cycling, Sports, Surfing, Snowboarding, Skiing, Rockclimbing, Mountaineering, Outdoors, Nature, Travel, Landscape, Watches, Hi Fi, Technology, and of course Sexy. I will not be posting much anymore on TrekEarth as I am just too busy with life, school, work, and fun to be posting on a bunch of different blogs. I decided to just condense and post on my main blog from now on. I will occasionally still post on TrekEarth, but not very often. So come on over to Beethovensteaparty. Thanks for following TrekEarth and I hope to see everyone on Beethovensteaparty.

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Jessa Younker in Thailand deep water soloing

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Bruce gettin shacked at Cloudbreak

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The Beast... Teahupoo

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Gorgeous tube at Cloudbreak, Fiji

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The Dali Lama and Heinrich Harrer meet again

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Many years later... His Holiness and Heinrich

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In sublime reverence, the Dalai Lama cradles his faith's holiest relic. When this young man was two years old, mysterious signs revealed him as the incarnation of Tibet's patron god, Chanrezi, and the previous 13 Dalai Lamas. Here at Dungkhar Monastery he receives a gold-encased bone which Tibetans believe to be that of Gautama Buddha, who founded the religion on which Lamaism is based.

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Monks and nobles prepare for the arrival of the Dalai Lama at Dungkhar Monastery, in Chumbi. Each place the god-king slept on his trek immediately became a consecrated chapel, where no mortal man may ever again dwell.

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Clouds of dust and incense veil the Dalai Lama's flight to safety. When China's troops entered Tibet in 1950, the Living Buddha fled to the Sikkim border. Here in a sedan chair, he rides between rows of stones designed to ward off demons.

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Mother and child pray on Chagpori's crest, a pilgrim shrine. Incense smolders beneath prayer flags.   

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"Walking on knives" led to the author's friendship with the Dalai Lama. Mr. Harrer, finding several pairs of skates left in Lhasa by British diplomats, organized skating parties on a tributary of the Kyi River. The young king, hearing of the new sport, yearned to see his subjects in action, but Chagpori Hill (background) blocked his view from the Potala roof. He sent a motion-picture camera to the author, requesting him to film officials' attempts to maneuver on ice. Here Lobsand Samten, brother of the Dalai Lama, seems headed for a fall. Wangdula, a monk officer and close friend of the author, glides beside him. A member of India's mission in Lhasa wobbles at the right.

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Top Tibetan officials marvel at a souvenir from America. A finance secretary peers through a slide viewer, memento of a Tibetan trade delegation's mission to the United States in 1948. The pondering noble at right traces his descent to a former Dalai Lama. Tibet's high chamberlain (extreme left), chief abbot and adviser to the present Dalai Lama, gave Mr. Harrer his first official job in Lhasa: landscaping a Potala garden. Here the abbot chats with the army's commander in chief at a government party.

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Cheeks ballooning, monks force sirenlike blasts from silver trumpets as they clear the way for their king.

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The final series of photos I have for Tibet are from Heinrich Harrer, the renowned Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author who befriended the 14th Dalai Lama during the Second World War. If you haven't seen the movie Seven Years in Tibet with Brad Pitt playing Heinrich, you owe it to yourself to watch the masterpiece. It will not only be a great movie but it will teach you about Tibet and the Dalai Lama's current plight in Tibet in regards to the chinese government. These photos are all from a great piece in National Geographic. Enjoy

Haggard and half-starved, the author Heinrich Harrer and a companion, Peter Aufschnaiter, arrived in Tibet in early 1946 after a hazardous 21-month flight from a wartime internment camp in India. Officials ordered them to leave, then relented. Extraordinary experiences befell Mr. Harrer during seven years in the veiled land beyond the Himalayas. Before China invaded Tibet, he became a friend and tutor of the Dalai Lama, its spiritual and temporal ruler.

The Potala, fortress of Tibet's god-king, broods over the flooded Kyi Valley. Nearing Tibet's capital, Mr. Harrer passed these groves of poplars and willows, transplanted like all other trees in the deforested Kyi Valley. Above him loomed the Dalai Lama's 300-year-old palace that Tibetans believe was created by spirits. Fearfully the author approached an archway in the center tomb. He felt sure guards would seize him or turn him back; instead he found only beggars standing vigil at the sacred portal.

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Three of the worlds tallest peaks... Everest, Lhotse, and Makalu

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Milky Way above the Himalayas