Salt Lake; Thibet. There are hundreds of salt lakes in the northern plateaus of Tibet; including the highest salt lake in the world. Nomads made journeys to these remote waters cradled by snow peaks; returning with salt-laden yak caravans to barter the salt for grain. In the foreground of this print is a Tibetan Buddhist monument known as a 'mani'. The sacred; untranslatable mantra 'Om mani padme hum' is carved on to stone slabs placed on the top