Twenty five years ago, the travel writer Todd Balf made his only appearance on the
show to discuss the paperback release of his book "The Last River: the Tragic Race for Shangri-La." This is the story of some adventurous men who took kayaks down a river in Tibet that rushes through gorges and is quite hazardous.
Our rapidly changing climate is having an enormous impact upon that region of Tibet and neighboring Nepal. Their glaciers are
melting-climate disasters that are impacting that region terribly. I had been thinking a lot about that area and what it used to be like. Then I remembered this particular show and decided to dust it off so that we could revisit a place that has changed a lot since that expedition.
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