WELCOME TO THE HIMALAYAS

Letters from the Himalayas

Dear readers,

I am an award-winning journalist and writer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. For the past two decades, I have reported on the Himalayas and their environment in both English and Nepali.

In 2018, I traveled 2,000 kilometers from Tibet, through Nepal, to the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. I followed the Karnali—Nepal’s longest river, from its source to its confluence with the Ganges. My first book, Chhaalbato: Kailash Dekhi Ganga Samma (The Road by the Waves: A Journey from Tibet to India), published in 2024, won the prestigious Padmashree Literature Award in Nepal.

My reporting for Nepal’s largest English daily, The Himalayan Times, received the WWF Media in Conservation Award in 2010. Over the years, I have worked with BBC Nepali, The Himalayan Times English daily, Dialogue Earth, and several other national and international outlets.

I write about the Himalayas on behalf of the mountains I gaze upon and the paths I dare to walk. I drink from the aquifers they create, breathe with the support of the trees they hold, and live among the stones they stand upon. I am here because of them. I am forever grateful to these “water towers” of the world, which support nearly one-fifth of humanity, run the planet’s largest rivers, and host its richest biodiversity.