Keep Climbing
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing” – Barry Finlay
Across Many Mountains
It was winter of 1959, the same year the Dalai Lama went into exile and the prophecy made by Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, was being fulfilled in a terrible way. This ostensibly 1,200-year-old prophecy says: “When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like the ants across the face of the earth and Buddhis teachins will reach the land of the red man.” The iron birds, or Chinese planes, were…
Conquering Mt. Kerinci – the Highest Volcano in Indonesia
So, I have just returned from Indonesia to tick something off the bucketlist – this time to the West of Sumatra, an island just on the other side of the Strait of Malacca from the Malaysian Peninsular. With over 130 active volcanoes scattered all over the country, Indonesia has the most number of volcanoes than any other country in the world. Of course, nothing can be more satisfying than conquering the highest and mightiest of them all – the one…