There is something wonderfully reassuring about a forest ranger telling you, “No problem. The elephants usually cross at night.” Usually. I was cycling through the…
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Sojourn Madagascar: Zafimaniry Highlands
Some 50 years ago, I developed a keen interest in the travels of the first western explorers that penetrated the Himalayas before WWII and in…
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Journey Through Karakoram and Hindu Kush
In the early 1980s, a journey through the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains was a voyage into the heart of mystery and wonder. Leaving the…
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Roaming the Newly Awakened Tibet
I will never forget the moment I took this photograph. It was late afternoon, some fifty kilometers north of the Nepal-Tibet border crossing at Zhangmu.…
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