Jam Yang

Photographer: Gordon Hazzard
From: Northern India

Jam Yang

He fled over the Himalaya in a group with 45 others. Three weeks later, 44 of them made it into Nepal barely alive, straving and frostbitten. They had hiked through chest deep snow in blizzard conditions. Jam Yang also liked to tell me about his days as a 'ladies man' that pre-dated his monastic vows.