Indian filmmaker and historian Benoy K. Behl in Ayutthaya, Thailand. Photos: Benoy K. Behl
Renowned New Delhi-based Indian filmmaker, photographer, art historian and author Benoy K. Behl has had his share of funny, harrowing, heartwarming and memorable experiences during his working assignments around the world. He made repeated wondrous journeys to the monasteries in India (Ladakh, Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur) and Western Tibet and found the trips quite a feat.
The monasteries were located at high altitudes (3,000m to over 4,267m). Above 3,000m in the barren desert of the trans-Himalayas, he said: “One has to lie down in bed for one full day, to allow one’s body to acclimatise to the low-oxygen condition. Every time one goes up further and spends a night at an altitude of an additional 304m to 609m, one has to spend another full day flat on one’s back in bed, for further acclimatisation.”
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