Out of the Shadow of a Mountain

“The trip to the Himalaya would give us another moment to share, but it also presented an opportunity for me to ask him something that had been weighing on me for five years. I knew his life like a movie. I could recount every major scene and setting and plot, except for one: a decade that, for some reason, he had never filled in. It was decade that, as I accidentally found out from an old friend of his, altered the plot of his life not dramatically but, in my mind, substantially. It was also a gap in a history that, as a son, I felt entitled to know.”

 

Harley Rustad – The Walrus – June 2018

 

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