 In the fall of 1983, Sager took a leave of absence from the "Post" to travel around Asia and the Far East, doing journalism and seeing the world.For one story, he spent six weeks in Nepal with a group of doctors and medical students; they trekked to a region that had been settled by Tibetan Buddhist refugees and set up a medical clinic.While in Kathmandu, Sager interviewed Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, the King of Nepal, who would later die in a massacre with most of his family.