Found this documentary about remain of human craved caves of an ancient Kingdom Tibet called Mustang. It had been closed from outside world and only recently opens to a few lucky adventurers and archeologist. It resemble the DunHuang Magao caves of China which is famous for it cave mural. In some of the explored caves, hold some secret shrine adorned with priceless arts, stupa (chorten) and ancient Tibetan Buddhist text well preserved from the elements. The bad news is the very unstable hills that are made up from large ancient river rocks and sedimentary sand that could crumble anytime.
I hope a large scale exploration could be carry out to safe those priceless artifact before it gone.
Published on 14 Mar 2014
This documentary is the first of two which explore the cave temples found in Mustang, which is now a part of Nepal, though it was previously an independent kingdom.
Most of the temples are in very inaccessible places up steep cliff faces, and many of them have been abandoned by the local population, who cannot access them.
SYNOPSIS
In 2007 Liesl Clark filmed her husband Pete Athans and climber Renan Ozturk as they tried to access some of these caves, and record them for the first time.
They had only a month to do the work on this visit, and they get off to a poor start being obstructed by snow blizzards.
Eventually they get some fine weather and began the exploration in earnest, turning up long lost paintings and artifacts from the caves, including manuscripts.
Later they are joined by an archaeological crew, both local and foreign, as they access more of the caves.
The locals are not always happy with them trespassing on their property, and there is an incident where they are stopped on the edge of a cave, and money is demanded.
They have to pay up to gain entrance, and when they do get inside the cave is empty and worthless, which the local leaders find amusing.
One very nice thing about the film is that Liesl and Pete take their young children along with them, and they seem to be perfectly adapted to the life. Like all young kids they are little explorers in the making.
