Phil Deutschle adventurer, itinerant teacher has climbed in the Himalayas and the Andes, crossed Africa and the US on a bicycle, and paddled a dug-out canoe down the Congo River. After having worked in countries as diverse as Nepal, Denmark, Botswana, the US, and Bolivia, he now teaches high-school science in central California. Apart from The TwoYear Mountain, Phil has written Across African Sand, Journeys of a Witch-Doctor’s Son-in-Law.