With visibility down to only 3 to 4 feet, we follow our "new found" guide through the swirling Himalayan clouds. Finally we crest a ridge and wait. As the guide and the porters begin their tortuous descent through the mists and into the inner sanctum we linger above. Slowly our dreams are answered. The mists begin to lift and the long-sought and elusive "Inner Gorge" reveals its paradise of wonders to us. Here we are looking directly down into the deepest gorge in the world - the thrust-pivot point of two major, colliding, continents. Far below we can see the powerful Yarlung Tsangpo River brutally contorted and twisted back in on itself by enormous geologic forces. (The river is flowing from the left to the right side of the photograph.)