Amid Sichuan’s Hengduan Mountains, mysterious stone towers jut more than 100 feet into the sky. No one is sure why
, a French cultural preservationist who carbon-dated wooden beams from several towers, producing age estimates spanning 1,200 to 800 years old. “There are many legends about the towers, none of them shedding much light on their possibleDarragon believes defense was the likeliest purpose of the extraordinary towers looming over Pengbuxi and elsewhere in the eastern Himalaya. But others hypothesize food storage, monuments marking male births, status symbols of the rich.
to fairylands of snow-laden spruce and fir. We crossed yak pastures raked by winds. We burned under a devastating white sun. In western Sichuan, the sacred peak Yala Jokul looms behind this Tibetan community centered on a monastery.Recently, an earthquake cracked Sonam Zeren’s mountain. Luo suspects their purpose may have changed across geography and time. But he informs me: “You can find them not just in the Hengduan Mountains but in Beijing.”
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