A deeply personal travel memoir that combines alpine adventure, family connections, and spiritual encounters in two very different worlds: a Himalayan village and Vancouver, Canada. In 2012, Michael Schauch and his wife, Chantal, undertook an expedition deep in the Himalaya of northern Nepal, into a remote valley that had been closed off to outsiders for decades. They led a team of artists (a photographer, a musician, and a painter), with the objective of capturing a moment in time through their unique lenses. As a mountaineering fanatic, Michael had a second (and less conspicuous) goal to climb an unknown mountain he had only identified through a photograph. What unfolded in the mountains forced him to question his values and his own identity, and eventually resulted in meeting a little girl, which was the most profound encounter of his life. Little did either know that from that moment they would completely change the trajectory of each other's life. A Story of Karma recounts this journey, and the years that follow as Karma (the little girl), and Michael and Chantal grow their lives together amidst the confusing dichotomies and backdrop of Karma's 17th-century Himalayan village; the impoverished and polluted Kathmandu; and the modern world of Vancouver, Canada.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 954.96
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- a-np---
- ISBN
- 1771604689 9781771604673 9781771604680
- LCCN
- DS493.53
- LCCN Item number
- S33 2020eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- EBLCP
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (263 pages)
- Published in
- Victoria, British Columbia
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241487 (OCoLC)1182860225 (CaOOCEL)458774
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- EBLCP
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Dedication 6
- Epigraph 8
- Table of Contents 10
- Prelude 12
- Part One: The Pyramid Mountain 18
- One 20
- Two 30
- Three 40
- Four 50
- Five 56
- Six 64
- Seven 68
- Eight 74
- Nine 80
- Ten 84
- Eleven 88
- Twelve 100
- Part Two: A Little Girl 106
- Thirteen 108
- Fourteen 116
- Fifteen 128
- Sixteen 132
- Seventeen 136
- Eighteen 142
- Nineteen 150
- Twenty 156
- Twenty-One 162
- Twenty-Two 168
- Twenty-Three 174
- Twenty-Four 182
- Twenty-Five 188
- Image Section 194
- Twenty-Six 226
- Twenty-Seven 234
- Twenty-Eight 240
- Twenty-Nine 244
- Epilogue 248
- Acknowledgements 260
- Notes 262
- About the Author 266
