Auto Stop around China - Part 8 - In haromny with Nature

06.07.2010

I open my eyes because hear some voices that are coming towards me. Or just my instincts tell me that someone is coming. Don't really know. I slowly start to wake up, and first what I see dew on my tent. Slowly I wake up and get out of the tent. and really probably they were my instincts that told me that someone is coming. There are 3 monks that are coming towards me. I am still not coming out of the tent, because it is real cold :D I just wash my face in the dew of the grass, and breath amazingly fresh, clean and so energising air that can be found only in mountains on 4000m high. The morning have just begun it is 5.00 am. This morning is amazing, you look left and you see snowy and high mountains around which you will conquer today, you look right and see amazing lake next to you. I look left again and get more and more amaze with a powerful mountains, powerful waterfall that is loudly roaring, that change in icy rivers and later flows in the lake. Finally monks are next to me. We say good morning each to other, they follow around the holy lake and mountain as pilgrims. We make some photos together and then say goodbye and wish good luck.

I start slowly to wake up and collect my things to conquer the mountain. But before I go to the mountain, I need to sign an agreement with it. So first I sit down and just in silent look on the mountain at this moment we have a silent conversation that would understand only both of us. We talk about letting me conquer him, letting me climb, letting me to be able to be strong as strong and powerful as this mountain is. And i am not anymore conquering him, I am in a harmony with everything around. We let each other to become stronger, This moment is not explainable it is something that paralyse you in a beautiful silence in the wild, in the nature...where is only nature , there is no individuality of you...you are not anymore you, you are just part of the one of the nature.

After this conversation and finding harmony in myself and nature around I start a climb. It seems that it is really close, but it is unbelievably hard and it is really far away... Today I need to cross a 3really deep rivers that all have so icy water that it almost paralyse your muscles. The water is so cold that after few second you feel that half of your body is made of ice. The bad with each moment is killing me more and more, as it is really heavy. You fall down to have a rest and then you just can't stand up, all your muscles ace, your body tells you, don't go, are you crazy, you can't do it, you are dead. But the hardest and most powerful muscle in body of a man is his mind...And when I can't do anything anymore, I tell myself stand up, I tell myself to continue, through pain. because I made a promise to myself, I made a promise to nature...And I know I can do it. There is no pain there is only the way and your aim that you need to fulfill. it is the fight not with nature, it is the fight with yourself. And You scream to yourself, stand up...you are the winner...and your mind puts your body up and make you stronger, it makes your fight again. i climb higher and higher...my head is aching as the altitude is already around 4500. But I don't notice it I just go up. I climb next to waterfall, water drops are falling on my skin and burn like fire with coldness but after a second it refreshes you. Pain is a pleasure here. As higher you climb as more snow you see around, more danger, as rocks get slipper. But I don't stop, You are hypnotized, you just continue your journey, higher and higher. There is no way back only up, only up. And then there is the feeling that I always have, when I risk when I do something dangerous. I feel that someone is looking on me, someone is protecting me, and that is why I am not afraid of anything. I know that someone is protecting me...And i feel his help always when it is hard and difficult. There are only 2-3m left. And you did it finally. You sit down and look around. This is amazing feeling, amazing feeling that you can't explain. i enjoy the view, but the view enjoys only my eyes..because my mind and my heart feels something else. Now you are in total harmony with you and with nature. You are in harmony with mountain, with snow that makes your way so dangerous, with waterfall, with rocks and all it together... You don't feel the pain of your muscles, of your head that hearts, you don't feel anything negative...you just smile and enjoy. now everything else seems so small, after this hard experience. You don't hear anything around...you are like in a vacuum where nothing comes in...

And then starts the way back...You are like in some automatic feeling now. You are not afraid of anything, you cross the swamp so easy, sometimes you get in so deep that you almost can't take your legs out, and you start to think you will stay here, but the some miracle happens and you are again out. And you still go go go... All your legs are covered with blood, but you are happy as happy as a person could be...

After 12 hour walk i return to the place I was yesterday. Only I need to cross a really swift river and around 1 m deep and 10 m wide...but what can you do...i need to cross it...Was real fun.

After few moments I am gain at the mountain where yesterday I was fighting with monks. Now i need to find a place where I will sleep today. And first I go to nice monk family to ask for some water to drink, as all of mine is finished. They give me tasty Tibetan tea, it is amazing, it cures your pain. I look horribly now, all dirty, covered with blood...but they are not afraid, and offer me to stay for dinner. and after i even make a tent next to them, and even arrange my way out of this place to next city I am going.

it is getting dark fast so we are going to sleep...Night will be fun, someone will try to eat me :) But about that next time ;)