- Rhodiola, a rose-root.
Beautiful high altitude specialist that provides powerful high altitude medicine. Lots of research on Rhodiola in Russia. - Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- Mountain scenery on the Deqen / Garze Prefectures border, Chinese know as Xiao Shu Shan
- Several species of Lactarius related to Lactarius deliciosus, like L. hatsudake and L. sanguifluus
- Soroseris, a true total high altitude specialist. Wont find it below 4000m / 12,000ft.
- Alexanders Rhubarb flowers are protected from wind, weather and radiation, all intense in high altitude.
- I love the structure of Polyporus arcularius, a wood digesting Polypore.
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- Tsongu Gompa (Gelukpa tradition). Chinese tourists know it as Chongu Sii
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, also an important medicinal in Tibetan Medicine and TCM
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- An orchid found in 4200m
- The city currently known as Shangri La,
formerly for 50 years Zhongdian and before that for many many centuries as Gyalthang, the royal plains by its Tibetan inhabitants. - Nyade as the local Tibetans used to know the place, Yading in Chinese.
Nearly every house is a tourist hotel. What location. - Ringha Gompa with prayer flags. We met lots of animals and mushrooms there.
- A nomad family we met in Trakaniri.
They were just as interested in us as we were in them! - An Amanita close to A. pantherina near Dabpa, Chinese Daocheng.
- Great Hot springs near Shangri La