Kailash

Plot

by Bruno Baumann. Published 2006. This 373-page paperback-size book is a great companion to Baumann's Kristallspiegel coffee-table type book, describing his trips to the Kailash area over a 15-year period. It has many more photos, although smaller in size, and some great maps. The text is in German, but the photos speak for themselves. The book has chapters on Buddhism, getting to the source of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra), trekking from Simikot to Kailash and the source of the Karnali, the Guge Kingdom including Tholing and Tsaparang, to the source of the Indus, Lake Manasarovar, and of course Kailash.