Chapter 9, "To the Roof of the World," from Dan Rather's biography The Camera Never Blinks, about his travel to through the kingdom of Sikkim on his way to Natu La Pass to report on the face-off between Chinese and Indian troops in 1965. Rather (Dan) Papers, e_rathe_00165, Briscoe Center for American History.
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