Heinrich Harrer: "Negara tempat kami bepergian selama berhari-hari mem...

"Negara tempat kami bepergian selama berhari-hari memiliki keindahan asli. Dataran luas didiversifikasi oleh bentangan negara berbukit dengan lintasan rendah. Kami sering harus mengarungi sungai-sungai es yang mengalir deras. Sudah lama kita melihat gletser, tetapi ketika kita mendekati tasam di Barka, rantai gletser yang berkilauan di bawah sinar matahari mulai terlihat. Lanskap didominasi oleh puncak 25.000 kaki dari Gurla Mandhata; yang tidak terlalu mencolok, tetapi jauh lebih terkenal, adalah Gunung Kailash yang suci, 3.000 kaki lebih rendah, yang berdiri dalam isolasi agung terlepas dari jajaran Himalaya."

--- Heinrich Harrer

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.