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Peace Without Penance. Son of a government revenue inspector, the Maharishi discovered his concept of transcendental meditation during two years of seclusion in the Himalayan mountain village of Utar Kashi. The Great Sage's explanation of his message is a trifle opaque: "When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence." In a word, some skeptics have suggested, "Think." All that is required to achieve this state of "pure being," says the guru, is a little reflective thought, preferably half an hour...
...most direct and serious provocation occurred in the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, whose defense and foreign policy are controlled by India. On Sikkim's border with China, Communist troops suddenly opened fire with machine guns and mortars on Indian soldiers laying wire at the 14,000-ft.-high Natu Pass. The Indians fired back, and for four days gunfire and cannonades echoed through the thin Himalayan air, causing numerous casualties on both sides. It was the worst Sino-Indian border incident since the Chinese invasion...
...centuries the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has remained as enigmatic and elusive to Western eyes as the legendary Abominable Snowman that ambles across its snowy slopes. Dotted with aerie temples and emerald valleys, ruled by a Dragon King whose subjects dress like Renaissance page boys, Bhutan relished the role of the world's last Shangri-La, and kept a closed door to foreigners. As a result it preserved a way of life indistinguishable from that of its countrymen a thousand years...
Even so, it is no weekend hacker's jaunt. Though McKinley does not pose the classic technical challenges of the great Himalayan and Andean peaks, it is nonetheless known for the worst mountain weather in the world. Soar ing 20,320 ft. into the subArctic sky, McKinley is exposed to 150 m.p.h. winds that batter the mountain's upper reaches with sledgehammer blows and are even more fierce than McKinley's 72-below-zero cold...
...week and drift about the placid, clear mountain lakes. For the more rugged visitor, Nepal has the Tigertops Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows and on up to the level of mountain climbers' base camps (16,000 ft.) on Mount Everest...