Tumbumdo

I finally found it. A couple of days ago. I just didn't have the time to post before. Tumbumdo the final resting place of Dutreuil De Rhins, attacked and mortally wounded by a Tibetan rifle shot on June 4th 1894. The french explorer was seized by the Tibetans and thrown into the river presumed dead.

Accompanied by an established player in Tibetan and Central Asian exploration Mohammed Isa and the author of the only account of the expedition, fellow Frenchman, Fernand Grenard, Dutreuil De Rhins body was never discovered and his place of death has, to the best of my knowledge, only been marked by a cross planted in the 1950's by French traveller Andre Migot.

Tumbumdo seems to have been all but forgotten as far as modern maps and guidebooks are concerned and it was only through the ever useful Oriental List and the help of the seasoned and very knowledgeable Kham traveller Raul Gutierrez that I picked up the trail.

Time did the rest, a chance quiet afternoon, not easy with a young family, after several months of wondering, and the cartographic miracle that is Google Earth and here we are. 112 years on, it seems to be very little changed. Rather refreshing to see in this ever changing world.