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[00:02.27]The monsoon which sustains this lush and fertile valley
[00:06.50]owes its very existence to the Tibetan plateau.
[00:18.13]Like a giant hotplate, the plateau heats up in the spring and summer.
[00:24.68]The change in air pressure
[00:26.33]draws in warm moist air from the Indian Ocean in the south.
[00:34.03]Thanks to this
[00:35.64]Over a billion people from India to Burma
[00:38.47]benefit from the monsoon rain that this wind brings with it.
[00:43.19]Tibet is the engine that drives the fertility of a whole subcontinent.
[00:52.59]But Tibet has an even greater role in the ecology of the region.
[00:58.20]Clues to this function are found in a legend that pre-dates
[01:01.77]even the ancient Tibetan culture
[01:04.26]and which still draws pilgrims from all over the world.
[01:14.24]Several world religions believe
[01:16.48]in a mythical mountain that's equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
[01:20.75]Its peak has four faces,aligned to the points of the compass
[01:26.05]and from its summit four rivers are said to flow to the four quarters of the world.
[01:31.82]Thanks to its life-giving waters
[01:34.37]this mountain is known as the "axis of the world".
[01:40.27]In one of the remotest areas of Tibet
[01:42.28]there's a place where this legend takes physical form.
[01:46.46]That place is Mount Kailash.
[00:06.50]owes its very existence to the Tibetan plateau.
[00:18.13]Like a giant hotplate, the plateau heats up in the spring and summer.
[00:24.68]The change in air pressure
[00:26.33]draws in warm moist air from the Indian Ocean in the south.
[00:34.03]Thanks to this
[00:35.64]Over a billion people from India to Burma
[00:38.47]benefit from the monsoon rain that this wind brings with it.
[00:43.19]Tibet is the engine that drives the fertility of a whole subcontinent.
[00:52.59]But Tibet has an even greater role in the ecology of the region.
[00:58.20]Clues to this function are found in a legend that pre-dates
[01:01.77]even the ancient Tibetan culture
[01:04.26]and which still draws pilgrims from all over the world.
[01:14.24]Several world religions believe
[01:16.48]in a mythical mountain that's equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
[01:20.75]Its peak has four faces,aligned to the points of the compass
[01:26.05]and from its summit four rivers are said to flow to the four quarters of the world.
[01:31.82]Thanks to its life-giving waters
[01:34.37]this mountain is known as the "axis of the world".
[01:40.27]In one of the remotest areas of Tibet
[01:42.28]there's a place where this legend takes physical form.
[01:46.46]That place is Mount Kailash.
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