Posted on 10/01/2004 1:23:19 AM PDT by HAL9000
Did Russian explorers discover Khyunglung Nulkhar?
Russian explorers announced this week to have discovered mid-September of the ruins of Khyunglung Nulkhar (Tibet), mythical capital of the State de Shangshung disappeared in VIIIe century, but the authenticity of this discovery is questioned by a travel agency which affirms y to have organized a trekking last June.
"We are the first Europeans to have put the foot" at Khyunglung Nulkhar (money Palate of Garuda), declared Iouri Zakharov, the head of forwarding, at the time of the press conference in Moscow.
This member of the Russian Academy of the natural science estimates that it is about a major discovery: "until now, one knew that (Khyunglung Nulkhar) was some share" close to the Kailash Mount (western), now "one can place it on a chart".
The Kailash Mount, high 6714 meters, is a holy place for Buddhism, the hindouism, the jaïnism and the Bön religion which see there, it is according to, the residence of their gods or the axis of the world.
High-place of pilgrimage, of the thousands of believing make every year the turn of this mountain is more than 50 km in three days. For Tibétains, a turn purifies sins of the existence and 108 ensure the nirvana.
Conversely, to want to reach the top of it would be a sacrilege.
According to Mr. Zakharov, Khyunglung would be related to the legend of Shambhala - the hidden Kingdom - a celestial place or would live a secret community charged to guide the evolution of humanity.
Moreover, the Russian explorers affirm to have been the witnesses of two events with difficulty explicables. "When they are seen by more than one person, it cannot be a question of a hallucination", indicated Mr. Zakharov.
The members of forwarding observed "some five second old blazes", which opinion even of Iouri Zakharov, could be of "the static electricity".
Odder still, by looking at clear surfaces like the sky or the rock of the mountain, Iouri Zakharov and one of his/her colleagues saw thousands of "swatiska (a Buddhist symbol) of the size of squares of a book".
All the elements are thus joined together to speak about a great discovery: a mystical place with the mysterious phenomena, extreme climatic conditions with more than 5000 meters of altitude and imposing landscapes.
But here is, Internet site of an English travel agency, the Himalayas kingdoms, propose a trekking which brings the tourists "to the ancient capital of Shangshung, Khyunglung".
"We sent a group (tourists) over there", Iouri Zakharov and its team "is not the first" to reach the ruins of Khyunglung, explained to the AFP the director of the agency, Steven Berry.
"But it is true that very few people were there", added Mr. Berry who does not want to disparage the adventure of the Russian scientist. Atteindre Khyunglung is thus an exploit in oneself, but as regards the discovery, the doubt settles.
Joined by telephone, Iouri Zakharov insists: "nobody (before us) had gone there. There are two Khyunglung, new and old "distant of ten kilometers. The team of the British agency "had to go to new".
What to maintain confusion, the more so as the Chinese authorities very strongly limit the access to this area.
Soon the debate will not have any more a raison d'être, a Western travel agency whose Mr. Zakharov refused to give the name, will organize dice the next year of the excursions of which the goal will be Khyunglung.
How soon before a mosque goes up?
They had a Yeti pulling their dogsled there, during lunchbreaks they ate Loch Ness Monster steaks.
I'm not really a member of the Russian Academy of the natural science. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
...So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier....
...Gunga la gunga...and I got that goin' for me...
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I've never been there. My luggage went there once, though.
So the Russians got scooped by Conde Naste?
Oh sure... thats easy for YOU to say..
Hillary's law office billing records finally found?
Did they stay at a Holiday Inn Express the night before?
For travel info, contact AAA, right?
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