Nepal's Everest Highway

EASY READER We started hear­ing our first reports in Nam­che Bazaar. The news wasn’t promis­ing. Heavy snow had tem­porar­ily closed Cho La pass. For almost a week as we jour­neyed higher into the moun­tains, the thought of a dan­ger­ous 10-​hour trek over a snow-​covered pass in the Himalaya lin­gered unspo­ken as we gath­ered around dung-​fueled stoves in our nightly tea­house sanc­…