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[QUOTE="VNwalking, post: 951774, member: 38350"] Beautiful, thank you [USER=7963]@mspath[/USER]. Very inspiring, each and every one. I read Alexandra David-Neel before I first went to Ladakh, and after I returned I had a whole new level of respect for what she faced. Still to this day it can be a challenge to walk there. I am surprised the article does not mention [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird']Isabella Bird,[/URL] who predated many of the women mentioned in the article. Here are some of my favorites of her accounts: Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes (1874) A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) Among the Tibetans (1894) At home she was frail and often ill. On the road, she was anything but. She married after some astonishing solo journeys. Eventually widowed, she upped her game: Dilettante? Far from it. If she was a dilettante, I don't know what any of us is, but not very adventurous by comparison. We've all gotten a bit soft. On another level of challenge altogether is [URL='https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010L2IVM/?tag=casaivar02-20']the account of Imiji Getsul[/URL], an English novice at Rizong Monastery in Ladakh in the early 1960s. I read it and was astonished enough, knowing the place myself. But more reading revealed that [URL='https://discoveringladakh.home.blog/2018/12/21/the-fascinating-story-of-michael-dillon/']he was actually transgender[/URL], which under the circumstances was another level of courage altogether. [/QUOTE]
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