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Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill train station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic lifetime was brutally interrupted when four equipped intruders invaded their residence and viciously attacked them, leaving them for deceased. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he previously lived by since years as a child. For the very first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt just like a foreigner in the land of his beginning. This audiobook is his bank account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence - to Bandar Punch (the monkey's tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest hill in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He establish himself this goal to show that he previously healed mentally as well as actually also to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, ways to rediscover mountains in his internal landscape. Weaving collectively observations of the natural world, Himalayan background, folklore, and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving yoga on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and long lasting secret of mountains.
