Phil Deutschle, peripatetic teacher, has worked in places as diverse as Nepal, Denmark, Israel, Botswana, Bolivia and California. He has climbed in the Himalayas, the Andes and the Sierra Nevada; cycled across the Namib and Kalahari deserts, and Southwest US; and hitchhiked three times across the US, throughout Europe, and Africa. Apart from Two Year Mountain, Phil has written Across African Sand: Journeys of a Witch-Doctor's Son-in-Law.