Climbing some of the world’s most challenging mountains without the elements or the male-dominated alpine world stopping her: that’s what Miriam O’Brien Underhill wanted to do—and it’s just what she did. In the 1920s, in the wake of the Great War, the world was in transition: new technologies were being introduced, the first signs of…
Month: December 2015
The Way of the Sherpa.
We Sherpas have long respected our mountain environment, because of all that it provides us. The mountains deliver us our water, with which we irrigate our fields. The pastures produce grass and fodder for our livestock, and medicinal plants for curing our bodies. And the cliffs and high valleys offer refuge for spiritual practice,…
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