Everywhere you look, lines of colourful prayer flags flutter in the breeze and prayer wheels spin as the water flows beneath them.

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As I reluctantly trudged my way further up the misty mountain towards the western ridge above Chele La, hundreds of large white Darchor prayer flags fluttered in the fierce winds that buffeted the exposed slopes.

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They floated party flags, rose and jasmine petals and other offerings out to sea, and finished the ritual with a prayer.

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