title: The Other Side of the Mountain: The Journals of Thomas Merton Volume 7:1967-1968
author:  Thomas Merton 
description: <i>The Other Side of the Mountain</i> is the seventh and final volume of Thomas Merton's journals, covering the last two years of his life. In this book, Merton finally makes peace with his ambivalent relationship to the Church: his civil rights and anti-nuclear work, his interest in Eastern spirituality, and his love for Catholic orthodoxy coalesce into a mature voice that avoids the frosty pieties to which he was often partial in his younger years. This volume takes its title from an entry made during his final travels in India and the Far East. In this entry, he relates a dream about gazing at the mountain Kanchenjunga:
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  ## Thomas Merton
  
  
  ## The Other Side of the Mountain
  
  
  The End of the Journey
  
  
  ## Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O.
  
  
  ![image](../Images/logo.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There is another side of Kanchenjunga and of every mountain-the side that has
  never been photographed and turned into postcards. That is the only side worth
  seeing.
  
  
  November 19, 1968
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](../Text/005-introductionpage.html#introductionpage)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part I:](../Text/006-part01.html#part01) The Election of a New Abbot
  
  
  October 1967-May 1968
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part II:](../Text/008-part02.html#part02) Woods, Shore, Desert
  
  
  A Notebook, May 1968
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part III:](../Text/010-part03.html#part03) Preparing for Asia
  
  
  May 1968-September 1968
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part IV:](../Text/012-part04.html#part04) New Mexico, Alaska, California
  
  
  September 1968-October 1968
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part V:](../Text/014-part05.html#part05) The Far East: The Last Days
  
  
  October 1968-December 1968
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [A Glossary of