“I wanted to travel until I no longer needed to search. Today I know that life is a journey that takes you to the end of the world, a return to the harmony we have lost.” These are the words of the great Swiss explorer Ella Maillart, who in 1951 was among the first Western explorers to reach Nepal, the birthplace of the Buddha. When the oceans rise, the highest places will be the last refuges and areas once considered hostile to man will become refuges. Eleventh Hour is an exploration of the smell of things that end, a journey to the end of Time, the last scent on Earth.