Mindless Pleasures
LINKS/INFO
Map of Himalaya/Trek locations
Lens on Asia - travel photography by Bill Schaefer
HIgh Asia Exploratory Mountatn Travel - Adventure travel outfitter
Canadian Himalayan Expeditions - Adventure travel outfitter
Central Asia Institute - Promotes and
provides community-based education and literacy programs,
especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Central Asia
Association for Nepal and Himalaya Studies - academic research center
and publisher of Himalaya, a scholarly bulletin on the people and places of high Asia
Nanda Devi Campaign - indigenous effort to support communities surrounding
Nanda Devi Biosphere Preserve through community-based eco-tourism
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation - U.S. based nonprofit organization
devoted to bringing hope to the most destitute children in the beautiful but impoverished country of Nepal
My Camera Equipment: Through 1999 - Olympus OM2 with Zuiko lenses, Kodak film;
2000 and after - Contax Aria with Zeiss lenses, mostly Fuji Provia or Velvia (Arctic trip) film.
A word about "Mindless Pleasures" - Mindless Pleasures was the working title of
Thomas Pynchon's 1973 masterpiece, Gravity's Rainbow, a mindbending novel set
during WWII. The New York Times called it "bonecrushingly dense, compulsively elaborate,
silly, obscene, funny, tragic, pastoral, historical, philosophical, poetic, grindingly
dull, inspired, horrific, cold, bloated, beached and blasted."
It is all that and more. Review. Also see: "Pynchon from A to V" by Gerald Howard.
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