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THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING...

THERE is a saying in the Himalaya, that the holiest of mountains, Mt. Kailash, isn’t somewhere you can just decide to visit, Kailash will decide when to let you come. For many years, I had wanted to make a pilgrimage to Kailash, but had never found my ‘right way’ to go there.

In 2003, while working in Nepal, I heard that that the Chinese and Nepali governments

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