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And finally, the plan. In Chris’s loopy, almost childlike handwriting, a rough itinerary put them at the base of Mount Genyen. Genyen Massif, a holy mountain rising up 20,354 feet from Lenggu Monastery on the Tibetan Plateau. Their prize.

Callahan dropped the diary back into the duffel and punched in numbers on his mobile phone, connecting him to his colleague Kara Jenkinson in Chengdu. “Hey, it’s me. I’ve got the bags open and the driver was for real. The reward money worked. It’s Genyen. My god, that’s where they are. Tell Seattle and Telluride we’re heading out first thing tomorrow.”

WITH A POPULATION OF SEVENTY-FIVE thousand and an altitude of only 790 feet, Appleton, Wisconsin, situated on the Fox River, is about as far away from Sichuan, in southwestern China, as one can travel. The nearest significant mountains are the Rockies, a thousand miles and several tanks of gas to the west. The paper industry, including Kimberly-Clark (the personal care company that produces big-name brands Kleenex and Huggies), provides thousands of jobs in the community.