JUL-B-1

THE LAUNCH OF THE LONG TREK:

LADAKH AND LINGSHED

  1. Jul-B-1  Index to the Jul-B-series
  2. A low-tech takeoff for a long trek over the mountains of Asia
  3. 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!
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Tangste: the first of our medical camps in the remote village along the Chinese border represented by Pangong Lake
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Interval cover letters during the Ladakh-02 Expedition for sending from Leh

 

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