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Stephen Bezruchka began his journey as a Harvard mathematics graduate who fell in love with the mountains of Nepal. There, he wrote the country’s first trekking guidebook before returning to the U.S. to study medicine at Stanford University. In the mid-1970s, he went back to the Himalayas to establish a community health project in a remote valley, far from any roads. This experience shaped a unique career where he alternated between working as an emergency physician in the U.S. and teaching medicine to local doctors in the most isolated regions of Nepal.

Through his travels, Stephen noticed a puzzling gap between America’s vast wealth and its actual health outcomes. This realization led him to earn a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkin
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Altitude Illness: Preventio...

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Trekking in Nepal: A Travel...

3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1981 — 15 editions
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The Pocket Doctor: A Passpo...

3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions
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Inequality Kills Us All

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Born Sick in the USA: Impro...

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Nepali for Trekkers: Langua...

2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1992
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The Hurrider I Go the Behin...

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“Because it's there.
-George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)”
Stephen Bezruchka, Trekking Nepal: A Traveler's Guide



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