JUL-B-1
THE
LAUNCH OF THE LONG TREK:
LADAKH
AND LINGSHED
- Jul-B-1 Index to the Jul-B-series
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A
low-tech takeoff for a long trek over the mountains
of Asia
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A journey of a thousand miles, said Chairman Mao,
begins with the first step: but
this one is thirty times that, Mister Chairman,
and begins with staggering stumbles: a warm
memory from a quarter century ago is refreshed from
my contact again with Joe Murray, both noble and
Nobel!
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Arrival in Asia, the third of the day’s continents,
and set my watch forward twelve and a half time
zones, as I now continue on to Lei, Ladakh, destination
travel: introduction of the team dramatis personnae
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The day following arrival at
Lei begins with a 10 K run over the city of Lei
and passing the Halal slaughter, as we start the
exertion phase of our trip, and I give a lecture
at Lei Hospital, followed by the Ladakhi cultural
dance
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The day begins with
the longest run at dawn, and giving the Kardungla
Pass a miss, I try to get by without electricity
in struggling with a lemon laptop and nonelectrified
internet cafes to attempt to communicate
- Sleep all day; awake all night hardly a rhythm
for accomplishing much: my
only patients treated thus far, are the students
who return quite blue from Kardungla
- Tangste: the first of our medical camps in the remote
village along the Chinese border represented by
Pangong Lake
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The three days of
medical camps at Tangste, with one morning excursion
to Pangong Lake before the return trip through Changla
Pass back to Leh, for regrouping, and packing up
for the next full day’s road trip to even more remote
Karzok, for two days of medical camps at Tso Morari
Lake
- The second
set of medical camps of “Ladakh-02” at Tso Morari
in the restricted area of Karzok, Ladakh, and our
return along the Indus River
- Interval cover letters during the Ladakh-02 Expedition
for sending from Leh
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