Katmandu

“Katmandu was very much a case of Katman-did,” the lonely widower says, bubbling over with his need to impress his famous guest or really, just to talk to anybody.

He soon moved to Las Vegas, where he performed with a group called Katmandu that cut an album in 1971.

“The mountain had been climbed, and I had already begun my race down the glacier toward Katmandu, leaving the expedition to pack its gear behind me.”

The smog choking Katmandu Valley had kept me from my first glimpse of the Himalayas.

Workers’ cardboard coffins regularly appear at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, among the tourists headed for the Himalayas, shipped like any other cargo.