Sacred Mountain Kailash Bashny.Net

Kailash - mountain height of the order of 6700 meters, which originate from the four major rivers of Tibet, India and Nepal (the Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra and Karnali) - until now still considered unconquered.
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Of course, one of the difficulties of this ascent is that Kailash is located in remote and inaccessible areas of Western Tibet. But there are two more reasons that are not conducive to such an ascent. The first - the mystical. Its essence is that in all treatises said that the mountain is holding the only gods. It resets the other. And supposedly only Milarepa and the Bon visited her top.

On the ascent of the Kailas was taboo, and even when, at last, in 1985, the famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner received from the Chinese authorities permission to climb it from him at the last moment refused. It is believed that all those who have made an attempt to conquer the Kailas, or died on the way to its top or back before reaching their goal, but "tronuvshis mind." It is said that in the Soviet times on the outskirts of the mountain disappeared two expeditions NKVD ...

The second reason is something that millions of believers around the world express their protest against the subjugation of Kailash, this protest UN support. In 2000, a Spanish expedition to conquer acquired permission from the Chinese authorities Kailash. Rise above the base camp at the foot of the Spaniards could not - thousands of pilgrims blocked their way.

Kailas is the correct tetrahedral pyramid, wall-side which is oriented to the cardinal, and the tip is rounded in the form of eggs. Gore is composed of thirteen horizontal stepped layers, and that is a bit like a pyramid ... The dome is covered with mountains of eternal ice cap. The south wall of Kailash entirely cut through the top down flat straight crack-cleft running precisely on its middle.

Layered terraces formed on the walls of the crack giant stone staircase leading from the base of the mountain to its summit. At sunset, this crack and shadow stone terraces form a pattern in the form of a giant swastika. However, and rivers originating from Kailasa, form a picture, like the swastika. The exact height of the mountain is not defined as a mountain "breathes" - annually its height varies by several tens of meters ...

It is believed that at the top of Kailash is the abode of Shiva, or Buddha, and there is the entrance to the mysterious land of Shambhala. If you bypass the mountain on a certain route, you can get a remission of all sins, if 13 times - do not get to hell for the next five hundred rebirths - and gets right to bypass Kailash different route ... did eto108 time weed out of the circle of rebirth and attain enlightenment of Buddha. Small but very important thing - if you're doing it all for their own ambitions - and nothing will mount your revenge.