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Day 15 - June 2, 2006 @ 4:27 p.m. Beijing time It snowed in the night and continued this morning. We didn't move our camp to Memar Tso. Everything was just too wet to pack up. Heinrich and I sat in the cook tent and visited while it snowed. This trip has been all he hoped for, and more I think, a voyage of science. For … [Read more...] about Road Excursion on a Snowy Day

Day 15 - June 1, 2006 @ 1:30 p.m. Beijing time This morning I went for a walk toward the hills behind our campsite. I was sitting on a grassy area, feeling lonely, head down. When I lifted my head to look at the hills I saw 15 chiru walking across the sidehill. It was as if they were saying, "You came here to see … [Read more...] about Waiting for Chiru, in the Quiet

Day 13 - May 30, 2006 The Aru Basin is so quiet this morning a frying egg sounds like an explosion; the whirr of crows flying is sound enough to fill our space and a tent zipper is a loud statement of human activity. We have few places in the US of such quiet. It's cloudy here this morning. We can't see the peaks … [Read more...] about On the Road to a New Campsite

We woke up to 3-4 inches of snow on the ground so we decided to camp here one more day. We had breakfast around 10:00 a.m. Then Jinpa and Heinrich went to see if they could purchase a skin for Heinrich to sleep on as his air mattress has a leak. When that was done Heinrich headed up over the hill behind our camp. I … [Read more...] about Day 12 – May 29 – Seeing the Chiru!

Day 11 - May 28, 2006 This morning Jinpa and I walked over to Aru Tso. We left at about 10:00 a.m. and returned at about 1:30 p.m. I was exhausted. Everything is so much more work at this altitude. I don't know how Rick Ridgeway and the others managed to pull those carts. [One secret is that they do not live at … [Read more...] about Covering the Miles – Catching Up