Robert Thurman gives tours to Tibet through Tibet House in NYC, and Geographic Expeditions in San Francisco. While Richard Martini was in Bombay making the Bollywood epic "My Bollywood Bride" he got an email from Thurman saying if he could get to Katmandu in a few weeks, he could bring his digital cameras and join the expedition. Six weeks later, the trip was finished.
This was Robert Thurman's fourth trip around Mt. Kailash. Sponsored by Tibet House, he also decided to take the "inner kora" journey around Kailash - and wound up missing for more than 18 hours. The festival at the end of the journey, Saga Dawa, celebrates the birth of Buddha, and is attended by thousands of Tibetan pilgrims.