World most sacred mountain stands in a remote corner of western Tibet, isolated by rugged terrain from all but a handful of outsiders. Its name is Mounatain Kailash. To pilgrims of four religions this (6714M.) 22,028 foot rock pyaramid is the throne of the gods and the ‘Nevel of the Earth’, a place where the divine takes earthly form. The lake and mountain are the crowing jewels of a magical land of pure light and intense colour born in the rarefied atmoshphere of 15000 feet.

To each pilgrim Kailash speaks differently.Hindus cross the frozen mountain passes of India to circle the peak that is Shiva’s throne and bath in the lake crated from the mind-Manas of Brahma. Buddhists journey from Bhutan, Nepal and every corner of Tibet to this holiest of mountains they call Kang Rinponche, the “Precious Snow Mountains”. The Jain religion knows Kailash as Mount Ashtapada, Atop the summit, its founder, Rishabhnatha, gained spiritual liberation. And to the Bonpo, the followers of Tibets old Pre-Buddhist beliefs, it is the “Nine-Storey Swastika Mountain” the mystic ‘soul’ of the entire region.

Hindu, Buddhist , Jain and Bonpo, each holds different belief,each sees different gods, but the underlying reality is the same The Ramayana says : There is no mountain like Himalaya,for in it are Kailash and Mansarovar. As the dew is dried up by the morning sun, so are the sins of mankind by the sight of Himalaya. The Indus, the Sutlej, the Brahmaputra and the Karnali all had their sources in the small corner of Western Tibet Ganga’s fall from heaven, and divides into four great rivers which water the four quarter of the earth.