He entered Tibet from Dolpo (Torbo), a region in northwest Nepal, and went about interviewing local residents there through 1993. He published a record of that expedition in book format in 1994.

Gazing at these images shows us the life and times of Old Nepal. This and other photographs taken by Jest during his research in Nepal’s Dolpo and Kathmandu 60 years ago are a reminder of how much in ...

This film was shot over nine months in locations in upper Dolpo, including the magnificent Phoksundo Lake that can only be reached on foot. The film depicted not only the lifestyle of the upper Dolpo ...

Previous projects have focused on the nutrition of indigenous crops in Cochabamba, Bolivia, nutrition education and sex trafficking in Serbia and gastro-political ecology and food system change in ...

This is a 6,039m peak whose value is not so much the technical difficulty as its location near Dolpo, on the border with Tibet. It was first climbed in 2001 by Tamotsu Ohnishi from Japan and ...

Likewise, scores of senior western scholars and practitioners continue to tell stories of their days in the field with Dor Bahadur Bista, Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha, Kazi Nepali, Upendra Man Malla, or ...