Jeffrey Rasley's Blog - Posts Tagged "mountaineering"
"You have to get lost before you can be found," Farewell to the Himalayas
I'm making slow but steady progress on my "last book" about the Himalayas. These are a few of the topics: "i) What does it feel like to get altitude sickness, and how can it be avoided on a Himalayan trek? j) Are Sherpas the best mountain climbers in the world; if so, why? k) What is a sadhu, why do yaks only live in the high Himalayas, and do yetis really roam the Himalayan Mountains? l) How in the hell can Nepalese porters carry such incredibly heavy loads in wicker baskets strapped to their heads, and what do they think about while they’re carrying those loads?"
NPR-WFYI Guest Appearance
I discussed You Have to Get Lost Before You Can Be Found with Matt Pelsor, host of the show All IN, and related the story of Basa Village, Nepal.
https://www.wfyi.org/programs/all-in/...
https://www.wfyi.org/programs/all-in/...
Remembering a Shared Dream from 2011
I have been a guest on over 150 radio/podcast shows and blogs over the last decade+. I usually post a link to the recorded shows and blogs on my website, and then, never go back to listen to or read them. Stuck inside on a cold, crappy day, I decided to check out the "oldest" links.
I clicked on the link for a 2010 podcast called "Your Life Matters". A "domain name for sale" has replaced the podcast site. Well, that's kind of depressing.
The next 3 oldest links were 2011 guest blogs - one on Patheos and 2 on Around the World Blog - focused to some extent on my first book, Bringing Progress to Paradise (now out of print).
But t
he 2d Around the World Blog at http://aroundtheworldblog.blogspot.co...
was interesting, because it anticipated my little ebook, Light in the Mountains, which was written as a supplement to "Bringing Progress". https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Elec...
It tells the story of my night out on a mountain ridge with Ganesh and Buddhi Rai. They told me about their dream for bringing some "modern things", like electricity and running water, to their village. And so the Basa Village Foundation was dreamed into being.
I clicked on the link for a 2010 podcast called "Your Life Matters". A "domain name for sale" has replaced the podcast site. Well, that's kind of depressing.
The next 3 oldest links were 2011 guest blogs - one on Patheos and 2 on Around the World Blog - focused to some extent on my first book, Bringing Progress to Paradise (now out of print).
But t
he 2d Around the World Blog at http://aroundtheworldblog.blogspot.co...was interesting, because it anticipated my little ebook, Light in the Mountains, which was written as a supplement to "Bringing Progress". https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Elec...
It tells the story of my night out on a mountain ridge with Ganesh and Buddhi Rai. They told me about their dream for bringing some "modern things", like electricity and running water, to their village. And so the Basa Village Foundation was dreamed into being.
