Far Journey Productions

We are a small production company specializing in environmental issues and Third World cultures.

Phil Deutschle is an international educator and writer. Having spoken more languages than you can shake a stick at, he is a true citizen of the world.

With his life literally hanging from a sleder rope over a crevasse near the top of a Himalayan mountain, a young man relives in his mind a relentless two-year physical and spiritual test as a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote mountain village of Nepal. Combining the elements of adventure story, travel log, and personal confession, this absorbing account describes a wrenching experience that belies the idealistic expectation of many Peace Corps volunteers.

Now, thirty-four years later, Deutschle returns to his village, intent on learning the fate of his family and his students in the wake of Nepal's bloody Maoist civil war.

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"Impossible! You will die." These are the final words of doom spoken to Phil Deutschle as he embarks on a journey of truly epic proportions: to cross Africa's forbidding Kalahari Desert--the World's Largest Expanse of Sand--alone, and by bicycle. It's a feat deemed to be impossible, if not suicidal. The coming 3000 miles of sand proves a test of Deutschle's physical stamina and mental fortitude in a life-and-death challenge seldom experienced in our modern world.

Woven into this gripping narrative of extreme adventure are colorful episodes chronicling Deutschle's five years' living in a grass-roofed hut in Mapoka, a remote Kalanga-tribe village in eastern Botswana. Deutschle's immersion into traditional African society is shockingly total--learning obscure African languages that have no written resources, dancing barefoot at tribal rain ceremonies, consulting village healers for medical treatment, and ultimately falling in-love with the daughter of the local witch-doctor.

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The Two-Year Mountain:

Filmed by Robyn Hutman and Matt Dickinson, this full-length, high-definition film documentary, The Two-Year Mountain: Back to Nepal, vividly captures the author's emotional return to his village after a lapse of thirty-four years. Deutschle--intent on learning the fate of his family and his students in the wake of Nepal's bloody Maoist civil war--discovers how the village has progressed in the three decades since his departure. In addition to the documentary-length film, special features on the DVD include archival photos from both 1977 and 2011, and a video version of the narrated slide presentation from the author's original book promotion tour. Available soon!

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