Examines the experience of teens in Nepal, looking at a typical day, what happens in school, family life, holidays, work, and entertainment. Includes photographs, a glossary, and a historical time line.
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Tsering, determined to live up to the example of his deceased father, defies his stepfather and attempts to navigate the dangerous mountain pass on which his father lost his life.
Young Tsering waits impatiently for the salt caravan to return to his remote village in the Himalayas, but when the caravan returns, Tsering learns his father has been killed and his life will be forever changed.
Frank and Joe travel to Nepal to try their luck climbing the Himalayas, but danger awaits them even in the frozen heights, and the boys must struggle to keep from becoming the next victims in a series of suspicious accidents.
