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The song of the yak
From: The Independent - London
Date: 19950429
Author:Christopher Hirst
Believing himself to be the first man to set foot in an isolated Alpine Valley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was chagrined to discover a stocking factory hidden in the foliage. Much the same reaction must have been experienced by Justine Hardy and her youthful travelling companions when, after slogging through the scree and snowfields of the Himalayas, they reached the Spiti Valley, a Tibetan border region cut off from the outside world for 70 years, only to find a party of English package tourists who had made the journey by coach and pack pony. The two groups of visitors behaved in true British ...
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