Renowned Italian Tibetologist and explorer Giuseppe Tucci(1894-1984)might have rescheduled his first journey to Tibet if he had known that then the only road out of Diyag,a border township located at the west gate of the region,would be blocked by snow for nearly half a year.He managed to arrive at Diyag on October 2,1931 after years of preparation,only to find that due to heavy snow,he could not go a step further toward Ngari,his planned destination.
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