BRAHMAPUTRA STORY FROM TIBET

                                  Dr M P DEVA

                                                                               UTAR, MALAYSIA

       

When one hears of Brahmaputra one thinks almost always of a huge river in India and in the eastern states like Assam 

Actually The  Brahmaputra starts as the mighty Yarlung Tsang Po which itself  starts in western Tibet. Fed by the melt waters of numerous glaciers that coat the northern side of the massive Himalayan range. The mighty mountain range the highest in the world itself stretches from far west north of Afghanistan at heights of between 7 and 8000 meters to near Chengdu in PR China. This picture was taken in winter when the water levels of the Yarlung Tsang Po are at dry season lows, dramatically illustrates its size  and the many tributaries and islands in the river. Taken from the steep slopes that lead to the fabulous Yamdrok Lake and the viewpoint at 5000 meters on the metaled  road to the  Tibetan side  Everest Base camp at about 5200 meters.

This vista of the Himalayan range in its central part including a clear view of Everest at over 8000 meters the,  meandering Yarlung Tsang Po and many small and large feed rivers from the Himalayan glaciers  and all but treeless desert of Tibet. The Himalayan range is now believed to have been the result of the massive float northwards of the sub continent of India from the antarctic and on arrival to the mainland of Asia the upward push and resultant crumple and rise the mountain range across southern Asia. This thrust of the Indian sub continent on to  the southern Asian mainland  cut off access of south Asia to the Indian ocean, trapped both fresh water lakes and indeed saltwater lakes that still exist today  millions of years later. Tibet itself also became for the most part a high altitude and the high Himalayan range cut off the arctic weather and winds and creating a very mild weathered  fertile continent watered by mighty rivers, the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra 

An enlarged picture of the Yarlung Tsang Po near Lhasa

one of the many lakes created possibly by the range of high mountains. some of the lakes are salt water lakes and unconfirmed reports of  fossils of sea creatures have been around

Stunning views of a Buddhist monastery on the northern bank of the Yarlung tsang Po

Crossing the Yarlung Tsang Po over the newer  of the 2  bridges near Lhasa, Tibet

North banks of the Yarlung Tsang Po

CHUMOLONGMA-EVEREST

A stunning view of the Himalayas and Everest from Tibet

On the southern part of the Himalayan range rows of very different wooded mountains

HIMALAYAS FROM THE SOUTH 

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