On the slopes of the Himalaya grows something which is worth its weight in gold. It’s called Yarsagumba and looks like a small, yellowish-brown tuber, about the length and width of a pinky finger, but ...
Surkhet, Nov. 25 -- When Dan Bahadur Giri looks at his village in Sukadhik in ward 8 of Khatyad Rural Municipality in Mugu district, he says it no longer resembles the place he grew up in. "Until 2000 ...
A typical landscape of yarsa, alpine meadow above treeline and below snowline. Pictured here is Manang’s Chuli Peak. All photos: ACHYUT TIWARI A young girl in the Ray-Ban sunglass is singing along to ...
The harvest of Yarsagumba (Himalayan gold) is a critical annual trek for Nepali communities, providing the main source of cash income from a rare fungus highly valued in traditional medicine. Despite ...
Surkhet, Nov. 24 -- When Dan Bahadur Giri looks at his village in Sukadhik in ward 8 of Khatyad Rural Municipality in Mugu district, he says it no longer resembles the place he grew up in. "Until 2000 ...
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