In the current heat wave, I want to blog about something cool. I thought about using today’s Globe story on the Boston bar that will be made entirely of ice, but I am not into bars and the entry fee is $19.
So here is one about a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas that is cut off from the world until the river freezes. The only problem is — the river isn’t freezing as much as it used to.
“About 1,000 years ago, the Buddhists there broke away from the Tibetan Empire [and founded a kingdom] in the very north of India, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
“The Kingdom is isolated other than two months a year when the river freezes over and people can cross over to India.” It’s called Zanskar.
Hear more at the Public Radio International show “The World,” where guest Daniel Grushkin describes a lucky escape he had near Zanskar when a piece of ice he was stepping on broke off.
And be sure to check out the adventurer’s other excursions at his blog “Roads and Kingdoms, here.
Photo: Sumit Dayal
Trekking over the frozen Zanskar River.
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