At opposite ends of the globe stand two Lookout Mountains - one above Golden and the other overlooking the green teak forests of the Shan state of Hsipaw in Burma. The Burmese Lookout Mountain was named for the place near Golden where Sao Kya Seng, E.M. '53 and his Austrian-born wife, Inge, shared some of their happiest times together before their marriage in 1953. At the time, Sao was a mining engineering student at Colorado School of Mines. Secretly, he was also the ruling Prince of the Shan state of Hsipaw, a territory the size of Connecticut. The mountain in Burma was in the kingdom where Sao and his wife ruled as prince and princess. Shortly after arriving in her adopted country, Inge went to the mountain. Standing on top overlooking the beautiful valley below, she was suddenly crippled by a terrible premonition that her fairy-tale life with her husband would shortly end in tragedy.
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