Environmental Graffiti

The Most Beautiful Yet Precariously Placed Monasteries on Earth

For those whom the word means something more than a catch-me-if-I-fall donation to a toll free number, faith is a dizzying business. "The rocks beneath one’s feet are ever liable to crumble into the void, but that’s the test faith demands – and we shall be protected,” the crazies who built the perilously placed monasteries featured here seem to have been saying – unless they simply dug free rock climbing, that most ancient of extreme sports.

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