Occupation: Mountaineer Birth: July 6, 1912 Death: January 7, 2006
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low….
My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men sk….
We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good..
All our dreams begin in youth..
Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as….
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he ….