Soaring Through Space — The Tibetan Plateau Meets the Rocky Mountains

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Before I went to Nepal to be the assistant leader on the first Mount Everest clean-up expedition, I read everything I could get my hands on about Nepal and Tibet.

I was fascinated with Tibet, which at the time, was closed the foreigners. This was 1967. One book by Alexandra David-Neel fascinated me the most. In Magic and Mystery in Tibet, she…