Tiger Leaping Gorge
Hutiao Gorge, Yunnan, China
He lay fully clothed on the wooden bed, freezing. Battling against the cold, the suffocating smoke and Shang Li for ownership of the only blanket.
Tiger Leaping Gorge Inevitably the famous flower eluded us and our hosts, as does the name of this specimen, which I wrote down at the time in pinyin but has since become lost somewhere along the line. If anyone out there with perhaps a botanical knowledge or otherwise could enlighten me it would be much appreciated as ideally I would like it to be the title of this piece.
The next morning we were chased of the mountain by the aforementioned snowstorm and had barely time to reach the comfort of our hostel before the surrounding hillside glistened a carpet of snowflakes.
