Julian Cooper has been looking closely at mountains, and rock faces and painting them for a very long time. Mount Kailash in Tibet is his most recent subject which he visited in early spring 2006 after a journey from Kathmandu into Tibet and across the frozen wastelands beyond the Western Himalayas. Climbing on Kailash is forbidden, so Cooper followed the centuries old pilgrim’s trail and circumambulated the Mountain, observing and recording his experiences as he went.