{"id":4522,"date":"2018-05-10T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:48:07","slug":"bio-press-page-for-life-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/bio-press-page-for-life-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Of–Bio & Press Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t
In 2013 I met a French clown in a caf\u00e9 in Lhasa. I was in a restaurant called “Tashi 2<\/a>” when I heard a voice switching effortlessly between French, English, and Tibetan. Marion<\/a> is a juggler, translator, and one of three westerners with a permit to live in Lhasa. She’d already summited Everest twice, one trip financed by a French bank (Milestone Capital). The bank wanted a photo of its logo at the highest point<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n In 2014 Marion and I and a small group took a bus from Kathmandu to Lambagar and walked north to Lapchi, over very challenging terrain. After a hard day trekking I asked Namgyal, our guide, if we’d ever hike to a high enough altitude to leave the leeches behind. He said, “Yes, tomorrow. Tomorrow we go higher and leave the black leeches behind.” He paused. “But then we walk through the yellow leech area, higher up. They drop from the trees.”<\/p>\n Marion chimed in, “Yes, so sorry, monsoon is not the best season for this, but it was the only time we all had free.”<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n After arriving in Lapchi my more energetic traveling companions took a day to climb to remote retreat caves. I spent that day wandering around the lower part of the mountain. I’d brought recordings of loops and beds of sound I’d made in my studio, thinking that if I walked in the spectacular landscape and listened without much agenda that the sounds could be encouraged to assemble themselves.<\/p>\n When I played around with the music back in Minnesota the images returned: –here is a crevasse in Lapchi, here is a stupa–<\/p>\n We walked back to Lambagar and then east, to Bedung. We bivouacked in the village of Na<\/a>. From there we made two higher camps and failed to make a technical ascent of Mt. Ramdung<\/a>.<\/p>\n