Land of the thunder dragon

My first real contact with Bhutan was about 25 years ago, when my friend and photographer Sean White showed me his then newly released documentary, Into the Thunder Dragon, which followed two unicyclists across the country.

I remember watching the video over and over. I wasn’t particularly drawn to the unicycling mission itself, which I had tried a couple of times, barely surviving, but rather to the faces, the pace, and the place the two athletes experienced during their adventure across the...