Labels:bulletin board | daily | earth | gazette | person | poster | sky OCR: The Brah maputra River RAFTING JOURNEY THROUGH THE REM OTE HIM ALAYA The great rivers of Asia have always held special fascina tion for U.S. one that's intrigued u.s for many years the Brahmaputra, known IT Tibet as the Tsangpo. From its head waters near Mt. Kailas the rive; runs east across the Tibetan plateau before looping through treacherous gor ges around the peak of Namche Barwa Ac crosses into India and becormes the Branmaputra the gradient eases just enough to make rafting feasible so 1 was just ma tter of time before we explored it. for our. selves and our friends! I n February 1995 we made the second Western descent of the Brahmaputra (the first- ever descent without flip ot portage) Repor back from anma enougr desceni
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