A Himalayan Odyssey
The little girl couldn’t have been more than nine or ten years old. Fearless, she was expertly climbing the rock face, approaching the top of the cliff, belayed with attention by a local instructor. Each of her moves was well thought and natural. Spreading wide her right leg and grabbing a minuscule rock protrusion with the fingertips of her right hand, she pushed hard on her left knee and, in a last effort
