Romanticizing the Tibetan Mastiff is All Wrong
The Bhote Kukur or Tibetan Mastiff is a breed of mountain dog living in the Himalayan mountains of Tibet and Nepal. It is indigenous to...
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Lesley Mapstone
A Daring Escape
On November 10th, 2021, I found a dog with a wound on his foreleg living in a mountain village in the HImalayas. He approached me limping...
Everest Base Camp
An experiential account taken from my diary written in March 2018 on an eight-day trek to Everest base camp. DAY 1 KATHMANDU TO PHAKDING...
Love Consumes - Poem
Love consumes. It swallows you whole; devours your will to resist its allure; makes you helpless in the face of it; ignites you, inspires...
A Summer's Night - Poem
When at last the day is done, the sun has soaked its final ember; crickets rise with voices one to celebrate their nights adventure....
Thoughts on Sadness
“Nepal is a sad place. People are sad, dogs are sad, all is sad here.” He spoke from beneath heavy eyelids, weighted with concern for my...
Orion's Hope
I call him Orion because his coat is pitch black like the night, and his eyes are full of light, like a million stars shining in the...
Facing The Deranged
While living in Kathmandu, I befriended a pack of stray dogs living in an empty lot. Over a couple of years I got to know them and in the...
Through My Window
A series of snapshots that capture Nepali life from Kathmandu into the mountains of LangTang National Park, taken through the window of a...
Yum (Yoom) A Tibetan Fertility Ceremony
Lopsang always knew he would be a lama when he became an adult, because he was the second son born to a family of five boys. In his...
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