One of the things I was hoping to see when I went to Sikkim was Mount Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world at 8,586 m...

Back in the late 1980s, I taught for two years at Jigme Sherubling High School in eastern Bhutan. It was the subject of my first book,...

In 1987, I was hired by World University Service of Canada to teach English in a high school in Khaling, a small eastern valley in the...