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ELEVATION: The Cave Logs of New Hale, Tibet

High in a Himalayan cave, Terma Den Sherab, a hardcore Tibetan-American former football star turned mountain search-and-rescue ace, and his lover, Calieze Moss, a talented Roma-American artist and nature cinematographer, make an extraordinary discovery. Together—and only together—they can boost the weakened immunity to a virus that catalyzes evil in the souls of potential killers thousands of miles away. In “ELEVATION: The Cave Logs of New Hale Tibet,” Den and Calieze recount their harrowing and exhilarating discoveries as they become caught up in life-or-death struggles both far away and too close to home. Rooted in Tibet with tendrils reaching across India, the Colorado Rockies, a Central American jungle, the streets of New York and San Francisco, and elsewhere around the globe, their riveting saga cross-pollinates sensual romance with experimental science and Asian and Western spirituality, reshaping innumerable lives including their own, the arcs of contemporary world history, and perhaps evolution itself.

What Readers Are Saying

John Teton’s novel ELEVATION is an adventure story and a love story, but above all it is the story of a spiritual quest…(and) socially conscious fiction at its best…

Lucille Lang Day

Author of THE CURVATURE OF BLUE and MARRIED AT FOURTEEN

Virginia Woolf said that it is a rare gift in our days for a storyteller to be able to make us want to learn the end of the story. John Teton has that gift; as I read ELEVATION, I turned each page quickly and eagerly…

Lawrence Rosenwald

Anne Pierce Rogers Professor Of English, Wellesley College

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