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Photo by Peter Laurenson
My book encompasses seven trekking journeys spanning more than thirty years. But trekking in the mighty Himalaya is just the entre. My story is also about a journey to kinship between a Kiwi family and a Sherpa family; a journey through tourism expansion, the emergence of guided climbs to the summit of Mount Everest, economic and technological development and environmental, cultural and political change; and a journey shared by a father and each of his three sons