The first European on the holy Mount Kailash in the legendary country of Shambhala. Tibetan sacred Mount Kailash (29 photos) Mount Kailash in Tibet what

There are a huge number of stunningly beautiful and at the same time mysterious places on Earth that attract the attention of travelers and researchers. One of these is Mount Kailash (or, as some sources also call it, Kailash), which is located in the southern part of the Tibetan Plateau of the Trans-Himalayan (Gangdise) system and territorially belongs to China. Kailash is translated from Tibetan as “Jewel of Snows”. Kailash is the highest part of this mountain system, its height is 6638 meters above sea level, although the data may differ - the question is a few tens of meters.

The four largest rivers of the Indian subcontinent originate from the slopes of Mount Kailash: the tributaries of the Ganges - the Brahmaputra and Karnali, the Indus and its tributary the Sutlej.

Due to the height and lack of civilization, difficulties arise in exploring the mountain - very little is known about Kailash so far, but this mountain is fraught with many mysteries, unconfirmed theories that are waiting in the wings. Many attempts to conquer the very top of the mountain have failed. So far no one has managed to do this. The expeditions were not given permission by the Chinese authorities, the UN and the Dalai Lama; pilgrims staged demonstrations and blocked the path.

Her appearance is a mystery in itself. The faces of Mount Kailash are located according to the four cardinal directions, and some scientists believe that this is an ancient pyramid, which is adjacent to smaller mountains and forms an entire system. Geologists believe that over millennia the shape of the pyramid was given to it by wind and water, and the mountain itself appeared under the ocean, as a result of movements and collisions of the earth’s crust, being pushed to the surface.

And the cracks on the southern side of the mountain look like a swastika, which in Buddhism means the highest divine power and perfection. Perhaps such cracks could have formed as a result of an earthquake, but Tibet is a place where incredible miracles happen. It looks like someone did this on purpose for their own secret reasons. According to some assumptions, it is one of the ancient civilizations.

Mount Kailash is mentioned in many ancient myths, legends and religious texts of Asia and is recognized as sacred among four religions:

• Hindus believe that at its peak is the favorite abode of Shiva; in the Vishnu Purana it is indicated as the city of the gods and the cosmic center of the Universe.
• In Buddhism, it is the seat of the Buddha, the heart of the world and the place of power.
• Jains worship the mountain as the place where Mahavira, their first prophet and greatest saint, gained true insight and interrupted samsara.
• The Bon people call the mountain a place of concentration of vitality, the center of an ancient country and the soul of their traditions. Unlike believers of the first three religions, who make a kora (purifying pilgrimage) after sun exposure, Bon followers go towards the sun.

Mount Kailash is overgrown with many myths and legends. This is one of the most famous places pilgrimage, because Hindus have Kailash - sacred mountain, where the god Shiva resides, and Buddhists consider it the palace of Buddha. Many are firmly convinced that the mountain is supposedly hollow inside and the enlightened have found refuge there. To make a complete circuit around it, you need to walk a distance of 53 kilometers along the valley at the base. The special name for such a pilgrimage is “kora” and it came from Tibetan monks. Anyone who has committed kora at least once in his life is freed from karma, all the sins he has committed during his life and can be calm about his next incarnation - he will definitely be lucky with his future incarnation. There are three monasteries around the mountain, where pilgrims are sure to come during their tour. The entire circumambulation (necessarily clockwise) lasts about three days, during which believing pilgrims stop for the night right in the open air. Funeral rites are also performed in the valley and being buried in this place is considered a blessing, since the soul is cleansed and the torment of hell does not threaten it. And the one who performs the kora 108 times will achieve the highest enlightenment, like the Buddha.

Mount Kailash coordinates: 31°04′01″ N. w. 81°18′46″ E d.

Where is Mount Kailash located on the map?

We should look for this mystical mountain on the map to the west of Hindustan in the region of the Himalayan highlands. Among the Himalayan mountains, Kailash is not the highest. Mount Kailash (from Wikipedia)- “a mountain in the Kailash range of the Gangdise mountain system in the south of the Tibetan Plateau in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

This is the most high mountain in its area, it is additionally distinguished from others by its tetrahedral pyramidal shape with a snow cap and edges oriented almost exactly to the cardinal points.

Height of Mount Kailash still remains controversial issue- it is widely believed that Kailash has a height of 6666 m; Scientists disagree from 6638 to 6890 m, which is due to the method of measuring mountain heights. In addition, the Himalayas are considered young, so their height increases on average, taking into account the weathering of the rock, by 0.5–0.6 cm per year.”

Who conquered Mount Kailash?

Mount Kailash still remains unconquered by any people. The most serious attempts to climb were made in 1985 by the famous climber Reinhold Messner, but at the last moment he abandoned this idea.

Also in 2000, a team of Spanish climbers purchased an expensive permit from the Chinese authorities, but thousands of pilgrims, believers and public organizations protested, and the climbers had to retreat.

Mount Kailash is attributed many mystical and sacred properties.

Kailash is sacred to Buddhists, Hindus and followers of the Bon religion.

Nowadays, not only religious people, but also those sincerely seeking spiritual practices, interested in the places of power of our planet, make a pilgrimage to great grief for the purpose of making a circular walk - Kora. This is a trekking route about 50 km long.

The main difficulty in passing Kora is the highlands and acclimatization to altitudes of 5000–5600 m. Also, according to many people who have visited these places, completely different vibrations and sensations emanating from the majestic and mesmerizing beauty of Kailash make a stay on Kora one of the most vivid and mystical experiences in life.

“The only thing better than mountains are mountains that you have never been to before,” sang Vladimir Vysotsky. In this case, the Tibetan mountain Kailash- the best of mountains, since no mortal has ever climbed to its summit. She does not allow any of the brave men who dared to attempt the ascent to approach her.

No man can come here!

This mountain in the shape of a tetrahedral pyramid with a snow cap and faces oriented almost exactly to the cardinal points is sacred to adherents of four religions. Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Bon adherents consider it the heart of the world and the axis of the Earth.

Tibetans are convinced that Kailash, like the polar mountain Meru from Indo-Aryan myths, unites three cosmic zones: sky, earth and the underworld and, therefore, has worldwide significance. The sacred Hindu text “Kailash Samhita” says that on the top of the mountain “dwells the formidable and merciful god - Shiva, who contains all the forces of the universe, gives birth to the life of earthly creatures and destroys them.” Buddhists consider Kailash to be the abode of Buddha. And therefore the sacred texts say: “No mortal dares to climb the mountain where the gods live; he who sees the faces of the gods must die.”

However, according to legends, two still visited the summit: Tonpa Shenrab, the founder of the Bon religion, who descended from heaven to earth here, and the great Tibetan teacher, yogi and poet Milarepa, who climbed to the top of Kailash, grabbing the first morning ray of the sun.

Failed climbs

However, these are legendary personalities. But for mere mortals, the mountain remains unconquered, despite its not the highest height compared to the Himalayan eight-thousanders - “only” about 6,700 meters (data differ in different sources). They say that in front of the daredevils who decide to make the climb, it is as if an insurmountable wall of air stands up: Kailash seems to push them away, or even throw them down to the foot.

There are stories about four climbers (either Americans or British) pretending to be pilgrims making a kora - a sacred circuit around the mountain. At some point, they left the ritual path and headed up. After some time, four dirty, ragged and completely insane people with crazy eyes descended to the pilgrims’ camp at the foot of the mountain. They were sent to a psychiatric clinic, where the climbers aged incredibly quickly and died as very old men less than a year later, never having recovered their senses.

It is also known that in 1985, the famous climber Reinhold Messner received permission from the Chinese authorities to climb Kailash, but then was forced to abandon this idea for reasons that are not entirely clear. Some say that they have sharply deteriorated weather prevented, others - that the guy who conquered all 14 eight-thousanders of the world had some kind of vision just before the assault on Kailash...

But the Spanish expedition, which in 2000 acquired a permit to conquer this mountain from the Chinese authorities for a fairly significant amount, faced a very real obstacle. The Spaniards had already established a base camp at the foot, but then their path was blocked by a crowd of thousands of pilgrims, who decided at any cost to prevent such sacrilege from happening. The Dalai Lama, the UN and a number of other major international organizations expressed their protest. Under such pressure, the Spaniards were forced to retreat.

But here, too, the Russians, as always, are ahead of the rest. In September 2004, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor Yuri Zakharov, somehow managed to lull the vigilance of the Tibetan public. Together with his son Pavel, he managed (without permission from the authorities) to climb Kailash from the southeast side to the 6200-meter mark. But the peak was still not conquered. Here's how Zakharov himself explained it:

While climbing at night, Pavel woke me up, informing me that there were light phenomena of natural electricity in the sky that were stunning with their unusual beauty. I didn’t want to get out of the tent at all, and I didn’t have the strength, but curiosity took over - indeed, every 3-5 seconds spherical, bright flashes flashed in the sky, similar to the luminous rainbow spheres depicted by the Tibetans in tigle iconography. The size of a soccer ball.

Here it is appropriate to recall an even more interesting phenomenon, which is already more difficult to explain from a scientific point of view - during the day you just had to close and open your eyes, looking at the sky, and you could clearly see luminous stripes, making up a huge grid covering everything around and consisting of hundreds -swastik. This is such mysticism, I would not have seen it myself, I would never have believed it. In general, these are the only unusual phenomena that happened to us near Kailash, except for the sudden change in weather at the time of ascent.

The higher the expedition rose, the worse the weather became: a snowstorm, gusts of sharp cold wind that knocked you off your feet. In the end I had to retreat.

Mysteries of the mountain

Light flashes over the top of the mountain have been observed since ancient times. Hindus sometimes see there a multi-armed creature, which they identify with Shiva.

Satellite images show that Kailash is in the center of a stone spiral. The mountain is a kind of accumulator of planetary and cosmic energy, the largest on Earth. The pyramidal shape of the mountain also contributes to this. By the way, the Russian scientist and esotericist, Professor Ernst Muldashev believes that this pyramid is of artificial origin, as well as other pyramidal mountains in the region, and they were built in time immemorial by some supercivilization.

The version is interesting, but hardly true. Many mountains in the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas have a pyramidal shape, including the highest peak on Earth - Chomolungma (Everest). And they were formed naturally, which can be easily proven by any specialist with knowledge of geology.

The ice dome of the Kailash peak looks like a huge crystal shining in the center of the bud of an eight-petalled flower, formed by intricately curved smooth blue-violet rocks. Ernst Muldashev and other researchers argue that these are mirrors of time, similar to those created by the Russian scientist Nikolai Kozyrev, only, of course, of a much larger size. For example, the mirror “House of the Lucky Stone” is 800 meters high.

The system of these mirrors changes the flow of time: it most often accelerates, but sometimes it slows down. It has been noticed that pilgrims making a kora - a walk around the mountain - 53 kilometers long, manage to grow a beard and nails within a day - all life processes speed up so much.

The vertical chasm running through the center of the southern side of the mountain causes a lot of controversy. In certain lighting, during sunset hours, a bizarre play of shadows forms here the semblance of a swastika - an ancient solar sign. Esotericists consider this a sacred symbol, proving the artificial origin of the mountain. But, most likely, this swastika is just one of the quirks of nature.

According to some researchers, the Kailash pyramid is hollow. Inside there is a whole system of rooms, one of which contains the legendary black stone Chintamani. This messenger from the Orion star system stores vibrations from distant worlds, working for the benefit of people, contributing to their spiritual development. And Muldashev generally believes that inside Kailash in a state of samadhi there are distant ancestors who have been preserving the gene pool of humanity since the time of the Atlanteans.

Others claim that the great initiates of all times and peoples - Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna and others - are in samadhi inside the sarcophagus of Nandu, located very close to the mountain and connected to it by a tunnel. They will wake up during the most severe disasters and come to the aid of people.

Another mystery of Kailash is two lakes: one with “living” water, the other with “dead” water. They are located near a mountain and are separated only by a narrow isthmus. In Lake Manasarovar, the water is crystal clear and tasty, has a healing effect, gives vigor and clears the mind. The waters of this lake always remain calm, even in strong winds. And Langa-Tso is also called the lake of the demon. The water in it is salty, undrinkable, and it is always stormy here, even in calm weather.

The sacred mountain hides many miracles and mysteries. You can’t tell everything in a short article. It’s better to see everything with your own eyes, come to Kailash and be sure to do kora. After all, even a one-time walk around the mountain will get rid of all life’s sins. Pilgrims who complete 108 rounds can achieve nirvana in this life. Of course, this will take at least 2-3 years. But it's worth it, isn't it?!

Victor MEDNIKOV

Taklamakan - Tibet plus Kailash, part 26

Expedition trip report 2010
through the Taklamakan Desert, the Kun-Lun Range and the Tibetan Plateau to Mount Kailash
in diary entries, photographs and “oil paintings”

April 28. Twenty-fourth day of the route
The uncomfortable, dusty and noisy bus ride on Tibetan roads over the previous two or three days shook out of us... no, not “our whole soul,” but the desire to switch back to bicycles. And, in my opinion, the bicycles themselves also liked lying packed on the roof of the bus. Therefore, the first few kilometers in the morning, when I had to pedal again, were hard. Something in my bike was rubbing, catching, not shifting and slowing down. In short, the “iron horse” kicked, refused to ride and lagged behind everyone.
But other options had already been ruled out, so everyone had to come to terms with it. About forty minutes of driving on a dirt road, and we rolled out onto the highway.

There is mostly no asphalt on the roads of Tibet, but if there is any, it is good. The phrase “poorly paved road” is not typical for China. They build here conscientiously. Or perhaps out of fear.
However, the Chinese built the first ten kilometers from the village of Montser to the east, towards Kailash, “to fuck off.” The asphalt looked fresh, but the edges of the pavement were already starting to break off, and in some places the curbs had half slid into the ditch. But every 100-200 meters, holes were drilled in the asphalt - this was obviously a core sample taken to check the quality of the road surface and the reasons for its destruction. We have never seen anything like this in Russia. Yes, and what exactly should we check? And why drill? And so in every domestic pothole the entire road “sandwich” is visible to its full thickness: five centimeters of gravel and a centimeter of bitumen.
I think that the investigation into the case of the road builders has already been completed, and the Chinese foreman has been shot. However, maybe he’s just sitting in prison, because the asphalt has improved further.

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The landscapes along which the route is laid are in some ways very similar to those in Transbaikal: wide steppe valleys and low mountains with gentle slopes. The soil is very dry, yellow, there is no vegetation. Most likely, the grass will grow later, when the rainy season begins, and then the desert will turn into pasture. In any case, extended areas of the steppe are surrounded by wire; apparently, wild antelope, of which there are a lot here, compete with livestock.

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4. Wild antelope

Tibetan herders are known to lead a nomadic lifestyle. When pastures become scarce, families load all their goods onto the backs of yaks and move to a new place. We almost caught a caravan of nomads on the road: they had just crossed the highway, passed through the gate in the wire fence and were quickly moving away towards the mountains. Bad luck…

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We have… “exactly 6666 m” left to reach the foot of Kailash
As we moved east, a large ridge began to emerge from behind the relatively flat mountains. And then the road paralleled this mountain range with snow-capped peaks, many of which were shaped like pyramids.
The ridge is called Kailash, and its central peak bears the same name - a great mountain in every sense, the final goal of our expedition.

6. Pyramid Kailash is not yet visible. But other mountains also look like pyramids.

The road is getting closer and closer to the ridge, but the mountains in it are difficult to distinguish, because they are covered with low dark clouds, from which rain streams descend to the ground in a thick gray fringe. And above the valley there are clouds hanging high in the sky and the weather is beautiful.

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But then the clouds hiding the ridge lighten, spread out, through them, at first, it is ghostly, and then Kailash is clearly visible.

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We have seen this mountain many times in photographs; it is impossible not to recognize it.

11. Mount Kailash, view from the south.

It’s time to talk a little about this famous mountain, which millions of people are interested in and revere as the greatest earthly shrine.
Like Mecca for Muslims, Kailash is the spiritual center of several religions. This mountain is worshiped by Hindus, Buddhists, Bon religions and Jains. And it is interesting to simply curious people around the world.

Tibetans believe that Buddha Shakyamuni lives on the top of Kailash, Hindus are sure that the god Shiva lives there (this is his summer residence, and for the winter he moves to the Hindu temple of Pashaputinah in Nepal), that the mountain is not just holy, it is a source of beneficial power, capable of positively influencing the current fate of the believer and the history of his subsequent rebirths. To purify and improve your karma, you need to circumambulate (kora) around Kailash. Every Buddhist therefore strives to walk around the sacred mountain at least once in his life. But it’s better to do this many times, ideally 108 times. Then you can confidently count on a “successful, high-quality” reincarnation.

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"One of us is an idiot..."
The sacred mountain, “like a magnet,” attracts not only religious pilgrims, curious tourists, but also various rogues. Crooks organize pleasure parties tourist trips to Tibet, to Kailash, they follow the same paths that pilgrims walk, but they call their trips “scientific expeditions.” After performing kora, true Buddhists strengthen their faith and spirit, while our false scientists have new ideas in their heads, they make “sensational discoveries,” and tons, kilometers and terabytes of lies and stupidity appear in the form of books, articles, interviews, videos about "secrets and mysteries of Kailash."

What Buddhists, Hindus and others like them believe in, I don’t call stupid. This is their religious teaching, which has evolved over centuries, fairy tales, legends for believers, enshrined in ancient scriptures. This is the spiritual culture of entire nations. Tibet, Nepal, India...
But what the new “researchers” invent and create is pure nonsense.
Even those who know about Mount Kailash only by hearsay are probably aware that it resembles a pyramid, and that some... how to put it mildly... modern dreamers (calling themselves nothing less than scientists and researchers) such as ophthalmologist Dr. Ernst Muldashev claim, that this pyramid is man-made. Why is there only Kailash! There are about a hundred pyramid mountains, and all of them were created by ancient sculptors! “This is the largest megalithic complex on Earth, built by who knows what civilization.”, - announced Professor Muldashev.
Everything was built, of course, by hand (“Tibetans did not know other technologies”).
The height of these “artificial pyramids” is a kilometer or one and a half. Well, guys did a good job!
Dr. Muldashev doesn’t explain anything else (why!? People already believe him, journalists broadcast his every word on air and in print). But we can figure it out ourselves: many centuries ago, the Kailash region was obviously a plain. The builders of the “mega-complex” pulled out (by hand) thousand-ton blocks from the ground - they turned out to be gorges, and put them in heaps - they turned out to be pyramid mountains. Otherwise, where could they get building materials? You can’t drag it from the neighboring mountain range! However, why not!? They could have dragged the boulders a thousand kilometers away. The mountains already existed before, but so-so... And the fanatical enthusiasts increased each by a kilometer, and Kailash by two, giving it the shape of a pyramid! And what! It's very simple using levitation! Just as easily as another “scientist”, “Kailas specialist” talks about it from the screen. Well, and only later, when all the workers went to rest, Shiva and Buddha settled on the mountain.

13. According to E. Muldashev: “The largest megalithic complex on Earth”

Muldashev, of course, also found Shambhala and, of course, on Kailash. “The mountain is hollow inside” - this is what the ophthalmologist not only saw, but also “immediately felt.” A door leads inside Kailash: “I saw her. This is a recess in the mountain, approximately 150x200 meters, covered with stone. You must say an ancient spell and the door to Shambhala will open on its own.”, - says Muldashev calmly. For so many centuries humanity has been searching for Shambhala! Now the issue is resolved! Only now, damn it, “the spell is lost”!

By the way, against the backdrop of other schizophrenic mutterings expounded about Kailash by all sorts of esoteric mystics, occult ophthalmologists and outright charlatans, the thesis about its “man-made” does not even seem like the biggest nonsense.

Among the Russian-language nonsense writers, in addition to the mentioned Ernst Muldashev, I would name two more “fresh” authors: A. Redko and S. Balalaev. One of them is a “physicist”, the other is an esoteric guru.”
If Muldashev began writing rubbish about Kailash before 2000, then Redko and his colleague began to “be weird” since 2004, but were very successful in it. In addition to this trio, some “dowsing specialists”, parapsychologists, members of the “Society of Atlantis Researchers”, fake Russian pilots who flew over Kailash, fake climbers, fake professors came to light…. A collection of these figures, with the active support of AiF, Ren TV and other yellow media, over the course of 10-12 years, have churned out so much nonsense to fool gullible citizens that I am unable to briefly describe all the nonsense (there are entire documentaries, books of three hundred pages ...).

The isolated sober voices of real scientists are practically inaudible; they are drowning in the ocean of nonsense and ignorance that has overwhelmed all the media. And it is impossible to refute crazy statements, due to the complete lack of any meaning in them. It’s not for nothing that it is said: “One fool can ask so many questions that a hundred wise men will not answer.”

In order not to be unfounded, I will analyze a couple of examples of scientific stupidity.
False scientists - authors of nonsense - charlatans (or sincerely mistaken people?), going to Kailash for “new discoveries”, call their trips scientific expeditions, but at the same time do not know and do not understand basic things, for example, such as methods and techniques for determining geographical heights They probably continue to think that the geodesist George Everest measured the height of Chomolungma in 1841 with a rope when he climbed to the top.

"No one knows the true height of this mysterious mountain. Measurements carried out in various ways show that it fluctuates up and down by several tens of meters every year, as can be seen from maps and reference books. Kailash seems to “breathe” around the average height of 6666m!”- write A. Redko and S. Balalaev (“Tibet-Kailas. Mysticism and Reality” (2009).
The authors who wrote this absurdity have no idea what they are talking about. A movement of the earth's crust, even with an amplitude of only one meter, is, at a minimum, the result of a tremendous earthquake of 10-12 magnitude.
In fact, even Wikipedia wrote a long time ago that the height of Kailash is 6714m. But our expeditioners really like four sixes. Read on:

“It is believed that three sixes are the “number of the beast,” but the biblical Apocalypse says that this is also the number of man. And in esoteric teachings, three sixes are an expression of the Highest creative principle of the Cosmos and symbolize the power of the Divine Mind. Four sixes are the sign of the Absolute.”

The magic of numbers also fascinates Professor Muldashev. In the intonation of the Messiah, the ophthalmologist broadcasts from the TV screen:

“From Mount Kailash to the Stonehenge monument in England - 6666 km. From Mount Kailash to the North Pole - 6666 km. From Mount Kailash to the South Pole twice, 6666 km. On the opposite side of Mount Kailash is Easter Island, where there are idols that no one understands. Next - the most curious thing: the height of Mount Kailash is 6666 m - four sixes!

All this, of course, is a lie and fraud. What does the height of the mountain in meters and the distance to the poles in thousands of kilometers have to do with it? The professor is lying and does not realize that measuring between two points on the geoid with an accuracy of up to a kilometer is a complex mathematical problem. But if we actually pierce the globe with a knitting needle through the center from Easter Island, then we will end up 1000 km away from Kailash - into the Thar Desert on the border of India and Pakistan. By the way, I have already discussed in detail the topic of “incomprehensible” Easter Island idols.
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Meanwhile, A. Redko and S. Balalaev, following the results of the 2009 expedition, among other “sensational results”, manage to make a “breakthrough in natural science” and for the first time accurately determine the height of Mount Kailash! In the chapter “Details of the most significant results of expeditionary work” (in the same book where their mountain “breathes around a height of 6666m”) the authors write:

“...the exact height of Kailash at the top was determined - 6612 m (in a small area 6613 m). Thus, the true height of the mountain is somewhat less than indicated on the maps (6714m)"

After this “fundamental discovery,” we should probably soon expect a new sensation. Since the height of Kailash turned out to be not 6666, but 6613 meters, then, consequently, the distance from the mountain to the North Pole is now 6613 km, and to the South Pole - twice 6613 km. This can only mean one thing: the radius of the Earth is somewhat smaller than science thought!!! Well, or the Earth “pulsates” in the rhythm of Kailash and, following him, also shrank!

Watch your hands
A lot of discoveries were made by the “Redko-Muldashists” using the method of elementary contemplation of the mountain in different sunlight. If you look for a long time and with prejudice, you will definitely see some images and secret signs among the rocks... Just like children who like to watch the clouds and see human faces and animal figures in them, occult scientists do the same thing, but only by peering into the stones. In a system of cracks on the mountainside, they enthusiastically recognize a swastika, looking at ordinary rock walls, they see in them huge artificial “stone mirrors”, “concentrating tantric energy.” They calculate meters and degrees and then manipulate the numbers, comparing them with the height of the Easter Island idols, the shape of the constellation Ursa Major, the length of the base of the Egyptian pyramids, the number of beads in Buddhist rosaries, and so on. Deeply meaningless numerical correlations are basically the “scientific” content of their expedition reports.
So, contrary to his own “discovery of the true height of Kailash - 6613m,” A. Redko, in the line below, begins to juggle numbers and show tricks with another number - 6612:

“By the way,” he writes, “for thought for esotericists and numerologists: the number corresponding to the height of the mountain 6+6=12 and 12+12=24 looks interesting! Or maybe there is a connection here with December (the twelfth month) of 2012, the time when one of the cycles of the Mayan calendar - Tzolkin - ends? Note that during the Tibetan expedition N.K. Roerich, very great importance was attached to the number 24!”

What the author wanted to say with this set of words is not at all clear. But now the phrase quoted above is clear: “...the exact height of Kailash at the top is 6612m (in a small area 6613m)”. The principle of numerological focus is also clear.
Here's how it's done. We take the number 6714 (the height of Kailash) and quietly correct the seven to a six, and the four to a three. Nobody noticed how 6714 turned into 6613? Wonderful. With the next move, we sacrifice one more meter exclusively “for the good of science.” Just a meter is such a small thing compared to the incomprehensible essence of Mount Kailash!
And now, with a new “constant” (6612 m), you can safely go out to the general public with the presentation of the book “Tibet - Kailash. The profitability of mysticism."
“Be careful,” says the nonsense writer from the stage of the Vasyukinsky club of esoteric chess lovers, “we are moving on to the arithmetic mystery of tantric numerology.”
Ain). 6+6=12;
Zwein). 1+2=12;
Drain). 12+12=24!!!
... and we have N. Roerich’s favorite number! Congratulations to all of us on this scientific discovery!
- Wait, wait, grandmaster professor, but you are cheating! - A one-eyed lover of numerology and dowsing shouts from the audience. - But this is complete bullshit! Where did you get the second “12” from!?
- And here! From there! I should have looked more closely at my hands! I also found a lover! You need to kill such amateurs!..
- But excuse me, teacher, then return the money for the book!
- That's it, comrades, the lecture is over. Please disperse! Thank you all for your valuable purchase, enjoy your reading!

Let's try one more trick. With Everest. The height of the mountain, as is known, is 8848m. But why not write: “The height of Everest is 8844 m (in a small area 8848 m).” A “concession” of 4 m is an absolutely insignificant “error” of 0.045%, but the number 8844 is much “more convenient” for our “science”. So, 8844, and we begin to exercise in numerology. Watch your hands.

Option #1:
8+8+4+4=24
!!! There is a favorite number of N. Roerich in the Tibetan expedition!

Option No. 2:
8x8=64
64+44=108
!!! Ready! Here it is, the sacred Tibetan number!
And by the way, does everyone present know that Everest is also a pyramid!? Here you can see:

14. Mount Everest is pyramid-shaped and the neighboring eight-thousanders. 2008, Nepal, photograph taken from an airplane

“A male lingam in a female vagina...”
Having mastered the technique of cheating with numbers, Redko and Balalaev followed the path of absurdity. They learned to find the hidden sacred meaning of Mount Kailash not only in manipulated numbers, but also in photographs from space. A most fruitful activity for professional travel schemers! (And this despite the fact that earlier Professor Muldashev generally claimed that not a single plane was able to fly over Kailash, and that even from spacecraft it was never possible to photograph the sacred mountain!).

The books by A. Redko and S. Balabaev, however, abound in space photographs. The “analysis” of photographs from space is reduced by the authors to the children’s game “What does it look like!?” This is an extremely important method for storytellers to understand the essence of Kailash. Here's a typical example:

“...Now let’s look at the Symmetrical Valley” again... Yes, it has the shape of an ankh! The same rounding in the northern part of the valley, the same cross formed by two almost symmetrical pocket valleys with pyramids in the middle part! But, as we have just seen, since ancient times in the traditions of all peoples it has been customary to consider the ankh to be an image of the path to energy and new life.
Look again at the photo of this amazing valley. After all, on the other hand, it is shaped like a male lingam in a female vagina at the moment of intercourse (remember that in this valley the water is pink, and this is not the case anywhere else in Kailash)! All this then passes into the symbolic “womb” - the Valley of Death. What if we assume that the birth of something or someone, or rather, takes place in Death Valley!?

15. Drawing (space image) from the book by A. Redko and S. Balalaev “Tibet - Kailash. Mysticism and reality (2009), p.157

And doesn't this mean that the Valley of Death is actually the Valley of Life?
That it is there that the hypothetical birth of entities or beings (new races?) takes place in accordance with cosmic cycles or God’s will (which is the same thing).”

Friends, answer me, did you understand anything from what was written? Me not. I don’t even ask why a professional traveler (that’s how guru A. Redko imagines himself) and a mountain climber (that’s how physicist S. Balalaev imagines himself) saw in the picture a cross-section of a vagina, with a penis inside and some kind of cross, and not something else . Why didn't it seem to them like a pacifier, for example, or, say, like the hilt of a sword?
But I bought the book :)

I thought a lot about who they really are - these “Muldashevs”: sincere fanatics of Buddhism, kind storytellers, naive crazy people, or arrogant pragmatic swindlers? And I came to the conclusion that, most likely, it’s the latter. After all, Mount Kailash is a “promoted”, profitable brand. Worse than Easter Island. There are plenty of gullible ordinary people who are willing to buy non-scientific fiction and believe in any occult nonsense. Every Country of Fools has its own fox, Alice, and cat, Basilio. Why not “make money”!
The more nonsense you spew, the more “novelty in discoveries” and the faster they will buy - apparently this is what pseudoscientific swindlers are guided by. But sometimes it still seems to me that they are honest people and they themselves believe in their own writings.

But for some reason I got very carried away with the criticism, and in the meantime we arrived very close to the village of Darchen at the foot of Kailash, and today, very soon, we will be able to check whether, as the “muldazvons” claim, “The mountain does not let anyone in... everyone, Absolutely any person, going to Kailash, overcomes a certain milestone... physically tangible. You feel as if you are passing into a denser environment...”
What if these people are not lying!? What if suddenly this evening (when with friends we set foot on the path of the sacred outer cortex), we run into the “condensed air” of Kailash? And won't the path lead us to the Vagina of Death? And won’t we begin to have visions in the form of “thousands of small luminous swastikas hanging in the air” and “a ray of light always shooting from the top of Kailash”?...And then I will actually turn out to be “Doubting Thomas” (as he says about me my wife).
However, I will pause at this point with revelations, just in case... But then we will continue...

In the meantime, I’m writing a sequel, help me answer two questions.

– Ph.D., MS USSR, St. Petersburg

Kailash - Height: 6.666 (6.714) m. Location: China, Western Tibet, north of Lake Manasarovar Kailash (Kailasa, Kailash) is a mountain in the mountain range of the same name in the Gandhisishan mountain system (Trans-Himalaya), in the south of the Tibetan Plateau in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China Republic. The height of Kailash still remains a controversial issue, for example, monks claim that Kailash is 6,666 m high, scientists disagree from 6668 to 6714 m, which is due to the way the heights of mountains are measured in principle. The impossibility of conquering Kailash makes it difficult to make accurate measurements. In addition, the Himalayan mountains are considered young and their height increases on average (taking into account rock weathering) by 0.5-0.6 cm per year. This is not the highest mountain in its area, but it is distinguished from others by its pyramidal shape with a snow cap and edges oriented almost exactly to the cardinal points. On the southern side there is a vertical crack, which is crossed approximately in the center by a horizontal one. It resembles a swastika. Kailash is sometimes called “Swastika Mountain”.

It is one of the main watersheds of South Asia. The four main rivers of Tibet, India and Nepal flow in the Kailash region: Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra and Karnali. The photo shows how one of the sources of the Ganges River originates from the mountain (the bed of a temporary watercourse, formed along a vertical crack in the central part of the mountain’s body; below, at the foot of the mountain, the bed meets the alluvial cone of the watercourse). The top of the mountain remains unconquered. In 1985, the famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner received permission to climb from the Chinese authorities, but refused at the last moment. In 2000, a Spanish expedition for a fairly significant amount purchased a permit to conquer Kailash from the Chinese authorities.

The team set up a base camp at the foot, but they were never able to set foot on the mountain. Thousands of pilgrims blocked the expedition's path. The Dalai Lama, the UN, a number of large international organizations, millions of believers around the world protested the conquest of Kailash, and the Spaniards had to retreat. Religious significance.

Some ancient religions of Nepal and China consider it sacred, endowed with divine powers, and worship it. Pilgrimages are made to it for the purpose of performing a kora (ritual circumambulation).

Kailash

Hindus believe that at the top of Kailash there is the abode of the many-armed Shiva and the entrance to the mysterious country of Shambhala. According to the Vishnu Puran tradition, the peak is a representation or image of Mount Sumeru, the cosmic mountain at the center of the universe. In India, the right to make the pilgrimage to Kailash is won through a national lottery. Buddhists consider the mountain to be the habitat of Buddha in Samvara incarnation. Thousands of pilgrims and tourists from all over the world gather here every year during the Tibetan religious festival of Saga Dawa, dedicated to Buddha Shakyamuni. Wikipedia

But, everything is in order. Legends often do not have a clear and unambiguous beginning. It is unknown who first brought information about Shambhala to Europe. But she attracted the minds of a variety of people. It was believed that this was an esoteric concept, the most important energy center of the world, a special heavenly place, a benevolent country that would help establish peace on Earth and even save life on the planet after the next cataclysm such as the global flood, or something worse.

There was another version that emphasized the apocalyptic side of this legend. It was believed that here, according to prophecy, the Messiah should appear and this should coincide with the destruction of the world, or that the supernatural forces of Shambhala would lead to the renewal of the world with the help of “Cosmic Fire” through the destruction of everything old, unsuitable and the implantation of the “New Order”. Mixed in with this was the legend of Agharti, an underground country ruled by the King of the World, based on a connection with Shambhala.

These rumors mixed the concepts of different religions and varieties of the occult. Some legends connected Shambhala with Christianity. At the same time, it was said about the existence in the north of India in Kashmir of graves in which, according to legend, Jesus Christ and his mother the Most Holy Theotokos were buried, and that it was Christ who would in the future open the country of Shambhala during his second coming. Even now, the Russian Geographical Society, in order to develop scientific tourism, organizes expeditions, for example, to the Himis Monastery, where scrolls of the Tibetan Gospel about the life of Christ in a period not included in the Bible are kept.

Most legends still connect Shambhala with Tibetan Buddhism, which arose on the basis of the older Bon religious movement. It is interesting that Bon used the swastika sign as a magical weapon of greatest power.

In Sanskrit, Shambhala was called Olmo Lungring and, as the director of the Bon Institute for the Study of Religion, J. M. Reynolds, explains, “...symbolically, Olmo Lungring represents the geographical, physical and spiritual center of our world.

In the center of the country there is a sacred mountain of nine steps, which connects heaven and earth, representing the world axis, connecting three planes of existence: the heavenly worlds, the earthly and the underworld. The mountain was the place where the heavenly gods of the Clear Light descended to earth.” It has several different names: Shambu Peak or Shampo, Tise (the seat of the Almighty Lord Shiva the Destroyer), Yungdrung Tu Tse (Nine-Storey Swastika Mountain). And the most common name Kailash is pronounced by some as Kailash...

One of the first creators of the legends about Shambhala in Europe was our compatriot, the author of one of the most popular occult doctrines of the last two centuries, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. She was born in 1831 in Ukraine into an authoritative and sociable family of an artillery officer, and the Russian Minister of Finance, Sergei Yulievich Witte, was her cousin. At the age of 17, this eccentric and ugly girl married the elderly vice-governor of Erivan, where her father then served, and a few months later she left her husband and began her wanderings. She traveled from 1848 to Egypt, Greece, Asia Minor, South America, India, tried many times to get to Tibet, and finally, on the fourth time, she succeeded. It’s even possible that she learned something about mountaineering in the process.

After Tibet she continued to travel until 1872 in India and

Blavatsky believed that Shambhala was located in the Gobi Desert, apparently because the Mongols, Buryats, Kalmyks and other Buddhists believed that Mongolia was the “Northern Country of Shambhala” and Blavatsky, of course, knew about this.

Some followers of Blavatsky, for example, Helena Roerich, argued that Shambhala was the source of the book “The Secret Doctrine”, and Blavatsky herself was a messenger of the White Brotherhood of Shambhala. Nevertheless, it is completely clear that if she found Shambhala, it was only spiritually.

Geographically, Shambhala remained a mystery.

The great Russian artist, scientist and even intelligence officer, the founder of a dynasty of researchers consisting of his wife Elena and son Yuri, paid great attention to this country. A hundred years ago, in 1909, he went on a mountain expedition along a circular route: India, Tibet, Altai, Mongolia, China, Tibet, India.

The main, though not advertised, goal of the expedition was the search for Shambhala. Roerich believed that it was in Altai.

Later, their son Y. Roerich translated a number of ancient texts from travelers to Shambhala, from which it is clear that this is a very important country, but it is not clear where it is located. Nevertheless, N. Roerich brought a map of Shambhala to Russia, which lingered for a long time in the storage facilities of the special services. The Roerichs themselves claimed that they visited Shambhala, but whether this is so is a big question.

There is an opinion that the Roerichs knew where Shambhala was located, but they were not allowed there, perhaps because, despite connections with numerous intelligence services around the world, N. Roerich did not work for Scotland Yard - the main intelligence agency at that time fighting with China for control over Tibet. The mystery remained unsolved, and after in 1933 E.I. Roerich published in Riga the book “Parting words to the leader” with a portrait of an ideal ruler and with obvious political allusions to the head of the USSR; they apparently had no chance of getting state help to implement their plans.

Maybe the mystery contributed to the fact that Shambhala was often used as a weapon in politics and war. Even Agvan Dorjiev at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, being both a Russian subject and teacher of the Dalai Lama XIII, convinced him to turn to the Russian government for military assistance against the backdrop of the struggle between Britain and China for control over Tibet. At the same time, he presented Russia as Shambhala, and Nicholas II as the reincarnation of its ruler. The tsar, however, did not give money for the war, but built a temple in St. Petersburg in honor of Buddha Kalachakra and contributed to the emergence of interest in Shambhala among N. Roerich, one of the members of the temple’s board of trustees. Another Tibetan lama, Pyotr Badmaev, who served as a court advisor, had previously suggested to Alexander III and Nicholas II to unite the Russian Empire with China, Mongolia and Tibet. It’s good that the kings did not listen to his advice. Otherwise, you see, instead of the Russian Empire, the Chinese Empire would have flourished in our forests long ago. Russia tried its best to fight for influence on

At the beginning of the 20s, the war ended, all the leaders of the warring sides died, including Lenin, Sukhbaatar and their opponent Bogdekhan. However, the policy of exploitation of the legend of Shambhala, begun by Sukhbaatar, continued. For example, the Japanese, trying to strengthen their influence in Manchuria and northern China, spread legends that Japan is Shambhala.

Stalin, knowing about the unsuccessful search for Shambhala by the Roerichs and feeling the futility of mythical hopes, took the path of pragmatic steps to ensure the security of the eastern outskirts of Russia. He believed that the highest lamas of Buryatia and Mongolia were collaborating with Japan and began to pursue a policy of repression against Buddhists. And then he decided that the best way for Russia’s security was to restore order and calm in the region. And he did it with the help of G.K. Zhukov in the battle of Khalkhin Gol in 1939 and during the liberation of Manchuria in 1945.

Stalin's rivals, most notably the Germans, including their Führer Adolf Hitler, were not so pragmatic.

Hitler was an active member of the Thule Society, and it was in this society that the proposal to use the swastika as a symbol of the Aryans was formed. In Buddhist cultures, the swastika sign was widely used and always to indicate only positive phenomena and associations, as a symbol of happiness and light. (The swastika among ancient Buddhists existed in 2 versions: right and left. The first was a symbol of good, and the second of evil - editor’s note). It was widely used in other cultures.

For example, in Russia, Nicholas II issued a 250 ruble banknote with a swastika, the Provisional Government added another 1000 ruble banknote, and the Bolsheviks added 5 thousand.

This money circulated before the formation of the USSR.

The swastika is often found on earthenware jars in Iraq. There is an opinion that back in 1920 Stalin gave Hitler a piece of jewelry - a gold swastika (Kolovrat) as a party symbol.

Swastika on Russian Money

Swastika 1000 rub. 1918

Swastika for 5000 rubles. It is also known that 7 thousand years BC, from the Eastern European forests, the Scythians and other Aryans, under the leadership of the great initiate Rama, made the famous Exodus through Persia to India as a protest against human sacrifice and in order to avoid civil war. In general, if not for the aggressive policies and misanthropic ideology of the Nazis, we might have had more than just negative views of the Aryans. But what happened, happened.

One of the last German expeditions to Tibet included the famous Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer, Fritz Kasparek's partner in the famous first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. For this first ascent, in 1938 they received Olympic gold medals together with the Germans Ludwig Wörg and Anderl Heckmaier from the hands of Adolf Hitler.

Harrer

I must say that there was an incident during that ascent that made a strong impression, at least on me. On the ice wall, Heckmeyer, who was walking first, had an ice hook break out and he slid down onto Wörg, who was belaying him. Verg, without hesitation, put his hands up and stopped the fall, but at a high cost.

The hands were pierced by cats. From the pain, Verg lost his balance and fell down. But this time Heckmeier managed to grab the rope and arrest his fall. When I remember this episode, I have associations with D. Bruno’s book “On Heroic Enthusiasm.”

Harrer, the only one from this team, was a member of the Nazi party, which, after the end of the Second World War and the defeat of the Nazis, he was ashamed of and even tried to hide. Let's not judge him harshly. What can you do, it was not an easy time, and in general, such is life. From the fact of Hitler’s defeat in the war, it follows that the Germans did not find any Shambhala, like all their predecessors.

In general, he learned many of the secrets of oriental medicine, ancient traditions of rejuvenation and life extension, and even mastered the so-called practices of immortality. He organized two institutes: the Institute of Traditional Medicine and the Institute of New Medical Technologies. He studied places with increased energy (places of power), in which a person’s performance increases, and he studied their parameters that can be measured with physical instruments. Then he participated in the creation of special devices - generators, which increase people's performance, although for a limited time, after which they need to sleep and rest. He mapped the places of power and built special diagrams based on them, from which it turned out that Kailash was in the center of all the diagrams. In and around Russia, such places are the Kremlin, including the Mausoleum, Sergiev Posad, and the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

For research, for genetic analyses, he bought fossil animals and even people in India, and committed other controversial acts.

On this occasion, our Patriarch Kirill, then still the Metropolitan of Smolensk, said: “... there is such a professor Zakharov, there is Shambhala, Kailash - so this is all from the evil one.”

With such baggage, he quickly gathered around himself a large clientele of people who wanted to become young and healthy, which included almost the entire Moscow elite and some members of the government. He began to publish many books on herbal medicine, as well as the socio-political magazine “Know”, the majority of whose editorial board consists of high-ranking employees of the Russian intelligence services. He launched his own websites on the Internet:, www. etnofit. ru, www. nirvana-tour. ru, www. znat. ru, www. young-life. ru.

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Yuri Zakharov prepared for his expedition for three years, or, one might say, his whole life. He studied everything that was known about Shambhala. Unlike Stalin, Hitler, the Japanese and other politicians, he did a lot personally. He personally studied the history of the East and the treatises of Eastern scientists. I personally discovered that various sources provide inconsistent information about the geography and history of Shambhala, that everything in them is presented in discord. And only comparison, comparison of several sources in Hindi, Sanskrit, English, not counting the Russian language and maps of the General Staff, made it possible to outline the route of the expedition.

He was aware of the expeditions and plans of his contemporaries, who, for their part, also followed his plans and wrote their books and reports. These are Ufa ophthalmologist Ernest Muldashev, with whom he had serious disagreements, Alla Kalyanova, a participant in his expedition, Tomsk traveler E.A. Kovalevsky and others.

Zakharov spoke sarcastically about these statements. He was also skeptical about the results of the study of the East by women: Blavatsky, E. Roerich, considering them “made up.”

The greatest respect, in his opinion, deserves David Nel, who managed to make such an impression on the elite of the East that she was even offered the Dalai Lama and Tashi Lama as teachers for further improvement.

She, however, refused such an honor, adopted a young lama (monk) and settled with him in Switzerland in her house, which was called the Tibetan monastery.

Yuri believed that Shambhala was a certain territory in Western Tibet in the area of ​​Mount Kailash, where no foreigners were ever allowed. Even the ubiquitous Japanese were unable to break through there, either in past centuries or now.

Zakharov was lucky. Just at this time, China opened previously closed areas of Western Tibet near Mount Kailash to visitors and was about to establish a strategic partnership with Russia.

From Yu. Zakharov it turned out that Shambhala is the ancient kingdom of Shang-Shung, which existed before the 7th century and has now disappeared, with its capital Kunglung Nulghar, located in accordance with ancient tantric sources in the valley of the Sutlej River.

Kunglung was famous as the "Silver Palace of the Garuda Valley".

Castle It was from the Garuda Valley (a tributary of the Sutlej) that, according to most orientalists, tantric teachings spread throughout Tibet..

The main problem here was that climbing a sacred mountain, from the point of view of Buddhists, is a violation of all that is holy. Moreover, even getting close to her is not easy.

There are two ritual routes around the mountain, the passage of which is called kora. The outer crust extends several tens of kilometers from the mountain. All groups of pilgrims who are given permission to make the outer kora are assigned a "liaison officer" from the Chinese intelligence services. In terms of time, the outer cortex takes from three days to a week with numerous ritual actions (prostrate in four places from which the mountain is visible, prayers, etc.).

Almost no one is allowed to visit the inner bark for religious reasons. According to Buddhist laws, only a pilgrim who has walked the outer kora at least 13 times can be admitted to the inner kora. For souvenir photos, pilgrims with special permits are taken to the beginning of the inner kora trail, where two monasteries are located to control the situation.

A year before Zakharov, the French somehow received permission from the authorities to climb Kailash. But then the entire Buddhist community rebelled, the Dalai Lama personally appealed to the leader of the expedition with a convincing request not to do this, and the French retreated. Yu. Zakharov, in order to get to the inner crust, resorted to a “little trick”

Already during the preparation of the expedition throughout 2004, problems arose one after another, as if some force was doing everything possible to prevent the trip from taking place.

For various reasons, eight of the twelve original participants dropped out, including, according to Zakharov, all climbers. Of the eight sponsors, not a single one remained at the start of the expedition.

But at the same time, some forces provided unexpected help. He was the first to be given permission to visit all territories, even previously closed ones, and already in September, directly in Lhasa before the start of the expedition. It is possible that these “some forces” were again the special services.

When approaching the valley of the Sutlej River in the middle of the desert with traces of sandstorms, they came across an asphalt road with poplars planted along the edges, reminiscent of the remains of a military unit, because of which this area was apparently closed to foreigners. For orientation on the ground, at road intersections, satellite equipment was once again used to understand which road to take. Yu. Zakharov and his group walked along the Sutlej River, found a bridge across the river, decorated with lung-ta flags, and entered the Garuda valley. Then everything was simple. In the valley, a hill with a diameter of 100 meters and a height of 50 opened in front of the participants; on the hill there were gray-red rocks with traces of the ruins of ancient buildings, and in the distance, rocks with many caves acquired a silvery color due to the inclusion of a large amount of mica. This is where the name “Silver Palace” comes from. Before them, the Italian professor Tuchi visited here, but did not take photographs. At the mouth of the Garuda Valley, images of Buddha and a swastika were discovered in the tower of the monastery. And before entering main hall

There was an old bast map of Shambhala hanging in the monastery, exactly the same one that the Roerichs brought in their time, and which hung at Zakharov’s house in Moscow. This is how the capital of Shambhala was found. Two years later, Tomsk tourist E. Kovalevsky drove along different roads for a week before he found the right direction and ended up in the Garuda Valley, because local residents and, especially, visiting drivers did not know anything about it, or did not want to talk.

After filming in the capital of Shambhala, they went to Kailash, and in accordance with the conceived plan, they sent a “liaison officer” along with part of the group to the outer crust, and the five of them went to the inner crust, where few people had ever been, and among the Europeans they were definitely the first: Yu. Zakharov with his son Pavel, two special forces soldiers and A. Kalyanova, who insisted that she too be taken into the restricted zone.

Coming 1 Further, the stories of Zakharov and Kalyanova diverge. Zakharov says that from climbing equipment they had nothing but ice axes, and the route was generally unknown

Already on the first day of the journey, in the evening they felt attacks of altitude sickness: headache, apathy, weakness.

Nevertheless, we stopped for the night near the Southern ridge, along which an acceptable path to the top was visible. Even during the day, they encountered unusual facts, either of nature or of the psyche. As soon as they closed their eyes and then opened them, they saw glowing mutually perpendicular stripes in the sky like a swastika. Perhaps this is due to the appearance of the mountain, the white snowy slope of which is dotted with black perpendicular stripes, which most likely gave it the name “Swastika Mountain”.

Coming 2

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For the night, two tents were set up: one for people, the other for equipment with a mini-power station. Yuri communicated via satellite phone with the participants walking along the outer crust and with the Center. Then I set the task: install equipment and scan and record everything that happens on the air in the maximum possible frequency range.

A three-hour shift was established.

In addition, several dozen water samples were taken from surrounding lakes and streams for analysis.

We slept poorly. At night, son Pavel woke up Yuri to show him mysterious atmospheric phenomena - flashes in the sky every 3-5 seconds. Something like electric balls or northern lights.

Sergei was left observing in the camp, although they had no contact. The climb to the south ridge took three hours. Further along the slope of Kailash itself they tried to climb to the top.

It seemed that everything was going fine, in the gaps in the fog they already saw the end of the path, but in poor visibility conditions they ran into a wall 20-40 m high, which was impossible to pass without climbing equipment. The altimeter showed a height of 6200 m. We had to turn down, taking a photo with the flag at the reached height and leaving the honor of conquering Kailash to future climbers.

Kalyanova writes that she woke up late. Sergei, who was on duty at the computer, showed two dots on the screen: Yuri and Pavel, said that they were already at the top, took photographs for a long time, even someone from the Center on a satellite phone said: “Professor, stop showing off.”

On the top

They're coming down now. He also said that when asked where to set up a banner for a photograph in the open press, he advised them to go down lower so that no confusion would arise. And he added that if they descend safely, a complex precedent will arise, consisting in the fact that only Gods or equals to them can be on Kailash. Thus, Kalyanova has no talk of bad weather. And there was also communication (via satellite phone).

By noon, the climbers came down to the tent blue, frostbitten, and had difficulty catching their breath from oxygen cylinders.

We decided to complete the inner bark.

One can, of course, doubt the absolute effectiveness of Yu. Zakharov’s immortality practices, based on the fact that one hundred percent mortality rate of the population has been recorded on planet Earth, but the discovery of Shambhala and the first video filming of its former capital cannot be taken away from him.

Nicholas Roerich in his book “Supramundane”, volume 1, wrote: “You have noticed how peoples are pushing the concept of Shambhala to the north.

Finally, among the Samoyeds and Kamchadals there is a legend about a wonderful land beyond midnight. The reasons for this retraction are varied. Someone wanted to hide the location of our Abode. Someone has pushed away the responsibility of touching something difficult. Someone suspected a neighbor of being particularly wealthy. But, in essence, it turns out that all peoples know about the Forbidden Land and consider themselves unworthy to have it within their borders.” Well said, but a hundred years ago. Now, apparently, something has changed in the worldview. A mere mortal man has entered the sacred mountain and lives, perhaps, under the punishing sword of fate hanging over him for breaking a taboo. Essentially an extreme situation. The 21st century is the century of extreme sports. They are found everywhere. Extreme mountaineering is developing at a crazy pace - solo, others

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