Dedicated in loving memory to my mother, Dr. Shobha Deven Parikh The Sadhu In 1982, Bowen McCoy, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, was on a mountain climbing expedition with an anthropologist friend named Stephen. During a “once in a lifetime” trek attempting to summit a portion of the Himalayan mountains McCoy’s climbing team encountered the sick frail body of a barefoot semi-naked Sadhu (“Indian holy man”). The team faced an ethical dilemma: forego the summit in order