text:  There was this one person who was apparently a very senior police officer with a lot of influence, and he encouraged me to write a letter to the Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala. He claimed that he knew the Prime Minister, and so I asked him to help me to write this letter, and he did. I'd always been talking about my desire to summit the mountain, so he said, OK, let's do it. That's how it happened.