The Woman Who Walked to Lhasa
She spoke Tibetan, had studied under Himalayan masters, and written books on Buddhist philosophy. None of it got her into Lhasa. So she blackened her face with soot, braided a yak-hair wig, and walked four months through winter mountain passes above 17,000 feet. Meet Alexandra David-Néel, the most ungovernable woman of the twentieth century.
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