Mortality and the Gift of the Moment [9min]

Tired, cold and breathless, NPR sound engineer Bill McQuay continues his pilgrimage around a sacred mountain in China revered by Tibetan Buddhists, and finds a powerful force guiding his path -- an awareness of his own mortality. NPR continues the "Geography of Heaven" series -- a joint production of Radio Expeditions and the National Geographic Society -- with an odyssey to southern China.