Discuss about Nick Middleton's experience at Hor being in stark contrast to earlier accounts
of the place.
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Nick Middleton is an award-winning geographer, writer, TV presenter, environmental scientist and university lecturer. He was born in 1959 in London, England. His curiosity about how planet Earth works and how people interact with it was fuelled from an early age. Now he works and communicates on a wide variety of environmental issues and travel topics for a broad range of audiences, from government policy-makers to primary-school children. He also teaches at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of St Anne’s College.
Nick is the author of seven travel books, including the bestseller, Going to Extremes, which accompanied a television series he wrote and presented for Channel 4 and the National Geographic Channel on extreme environments and the people who live in them. His TV documentaries have been broadcast all over the world and his books translated into more than a dozen language
This article gives an account of a journey from gently rolling hills of Ravu to Mount Kailash.
The narrator wanted to complete the kora at Mount Kailash. Lhamo gave him a long sleeved sheep skin coat to keep him warmer. He hired Tsetan’s car and took Daniel as companion for escorting him upto Darchen. He seems a lover of adventure who is not at all afraid of taking risks.
Hor is a small town on the main highway of east-west. from Lhasa to Kashmir,the historic highway naturally followed the old trade road.The town is located on the shore of lake mansarovar. The author found hor a grim miserable place with non vegetation.It was just dust and rocks