Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; Geography; A short history of Dolpo; Tourism; Life in Dolpo; Schools; Girls in Dolpo; Dolpo at the centre of international attention; Indigenous people of Nepal; We're no Tibetans; Tibetan Buddhism; Time; The arrival of the twenty-first century; A year in a village; Season between the seasons; Migration; Modern conservation schemes and traditional health care; Wildlife; Dancing clouds; Acknowledgements; Further reading and Worthwhile projects in Dolpo.

About the Author

Gerda Pauler was born in the late 1950s outside Munich and soon found out that she had inherited her mother’s passion for adventure. Whereas her female friends spent all their money on stylish clothes, she used hers for rucksacks, sleeping bags and travelling. However, she was almost thirty years old before she set out on her first trip to Nepal, and it was then that she developed a genuine love for the mountains. Now, twenty-five years later, she looks back at countless trips to the Himalaya and Central Asia – and knows that she will never get tired of visiting the area. She is the author of Great Himalaya Trail (Bâton Wicks, 2013). Dolpo: People and Landscape is her second book.