KYIV, Ukraine—In July 2010, I left a decade-long career in the Air Force, which included combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a special operations pilot.
I was 29 years old and set to begin studies at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism the following January.
Rather than idle away the intervening months, I had a plan—I would wander through India and Nepal in true Christopher McCandless style. My intent was to search for a new direction in life as I wandered, pathless, through the Himalayas.
The trip lasted for several months, culminating in the ascent of a 20,300-foot-high mountain in Nepal called …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
