She pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, feigned collapsing on the ground and then looked up, smiling. She spoke in English. "I'm tired," she said.

Walking down a vacant road on the way to Padum, capital of the ancient kingdom of Zanskar, about five kilometers off the river, I pass a Tibetan monk with his distinctive red kasaya wrapped obliquely about his shoulders. He stops, and in halting English asks my age. When I tell him, he looks me in the eyes and says, "Ah, you have short life left." It's a daunting thought.

A few years back, I set out with my dear friend Tom on a kind of pilgrimage, seeking clarity and little adventure. Our destination was the source of the Ganges river in the Himalayas.

In the shadow of Mount Everest and its magnetic lore, a cross-border route with a grand name, the Great Himalaya Trail, is being touted as an epic, un...

Chukung Tse is thought to be the highest point on Earth that one can get to without ropes and technical climbing. Her peak sits proudly just below the massive peaks of the Himalayas: Everest, Lhotse, Nuptche, Cho Oyu and Ama Bablam.

Have you ever found yourself asking the question "I wonder if there is something more out there for me?" The dream that I had, that few understood, has taken me to the far ends of the Earth and has evolved into a non-profit organization that is truly changing people's lives.