the snow leopard Author:peter mathiessen Natural-explorer Mattheissen, in the wake of his wife's death,set out with field biologist George Schaller on an extradinary 250 mile trek from Pokhara to the Tibetan plateau. Passing ove the high Himalaya, seeking a glimpse of the near-mythical leopard Matthiessen came ever closer to understanding himself- and the world-arriving at last at the ... more »ancient holy place of Tibetan Buddhism called the Crystal Mountain.« less