Somewhere between Shigatse and Sakya, Tibet
October 2007

When traveling across Tibet, sometimes it is really hard to accurately gauge distances or get a sense of scale. The clean air - so incredibly different from the smog-choked skies of eastern China - and the immense scenery make one feel truly humble. It would be hillside monasteries or yaks grazing by a river that would help give some scale to the magnificent views.

I was looking through some pictures from that trip, and I realized that in the pictures I took on an overlook on one of the passes, we were actually standing above the bottom of the cloud layer.