Mountain Culture: Getting Involved

Trekker's Comments & Kamzang Style

Experience - Safety - Adventure - Challenge - Local Knowledge - Fun

Spending the morning with the Tibetan kids of Samdo, Nupri, Manslu region (Nepal)

Sharing an afternoon with local Mustangi woman, Upper Mustang (Nepal).

A 'Middle Hills' mountain girl from central Nepal.

Buddhist Lama from Dolpo, who appeared in the movie 'Himalaya' (Nepal).

Tibetan girl and mother along the Ganden Gompa kora, central Tibet.

Pretty and colorful Gurung girls from the middle hills of the Manaslu region (Nepal).

A Gurung woman, adorned in gold jewelry, from the Manaslu region (Nepal).

My Ladakhi 'grandmother' from Yulchung village, Ladakh (J & K, Indian Himalaya).

Tibetan girl from Shayla, Nupri, the Manaslu region (Nepal).

A Gurung girl in the Manaslu region (Nepal)

A Tibetan family from Shayla, Nupri, the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Three elderly but beautiful Gurung women from Phillim, in the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Two photos of a beautiful Tibetan girl from the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Young Hindu and Gurung boys from Gorkha, the first capital of Nepal.

Young mountain girls from lower Manaslu region, one Gurung and the other Hindu (Nepal).

Gurung matriarch from Laprak village in the lower Manaslu region (Nepal).

Two Tibetan women passing the afternoon counting their prayer beads, spinning prayer wheels and talking (Lhasa, Tibet).

Young Tibetan Buddhist monk from Thikse Gompa, Ladakh (J & K, Indian Himalaya).

A Tibetan monk and Tibetan woman doing the kora of Ganden Monastery, Tibet.

A Tibetan woman doing a kora of a monastery outside of Lhasa (Tibet).

Namastes from mountain girls of the Manang region (Nepal).

A Ladakhi family from Yulchung villge (J & K, Indian Himalaya).

A Tibetan woman from Samdo, Nupri, the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Tibetan nomad at Mount Kailash, western Tibet.

A Tibetan baby from Samdo, Manaslu region (Nepal).

Middle hills mountain girl form the lower Manaslu region (Nepal).

A Hindu girl from the central mountains, Nepal.

A Hindu girl from the lower Manaslu region (Nepal).

Traditional Hindu priest from Gorkha Fort, Gorkha (Nepal).

Hindu women from the lower Manaslu region (Nepal).

Older Gurung woman grinding wheat on her front porch, the lower Manaslu region (Nepal).

Nepali shopkeeper from Gorkha (Nepal).

Gurung grandmother with her grand-daughter in the lower Manaslu region (Nepal).

Monks and lamas in costume for the yearly 'lama dance' in Lho, Nupri, the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Gurung woman from lower Manaslu region (Nepal).

Tibetan brothers from central Tibet.

Tibetan friend from Samdo, Nupri, the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Greetings from a Tibetan man from Sho, Nupri, the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Bundled up Tibetan baby from a seasonal tent near Sama Goan, Nupri, the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Young Tibetan girl with a big yawn, Lho, Manaslu region (Nepal).

Gurung grandmother from the Manaslu region (Nepal).

Tibetan monks and lamas doing the sacred Kailash kora, western Tibet.

Tibetan women spinning their prayer wheels (Lhasa, Tibet).

Tibetan woman doing the kora of Drepung Gompa (Lhasa, Tibet).

A Tibetan woman prostating in front of the Potala Palace (Lhasa, Tibet).

Tibetan lamas performing the Saga Dawa puja at Mount Kailash (Ngari, Tibet).

Tibetan woman from Amdo living in Parayang, western Tibet.

Mountain boys fromthe Manang region (Nepal).

Celbrating Desain in Phillim, Manaslu region (Nepal).

Gurung family from Gorkha (Nepal).

Sharing an afternoon with a village elder (Panauti, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal).

Wedding season in Rajasthan, India.

Sharing the lives of local Rajasthanis in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.