HIMALAYA DREAMS, a PDF version of a coffee table photography book of the same name, focuses on the diversity of the Nepal Himalaya ethnic groups as encountered by the author on his trek across Nepal in the 1970s. Narrating a route to the “rain shadow” regions behind the principal chain of the High Himalayas along the Tibetan border, the author traveled through the areas of the Ancient Nepalese, the original people of the Greater Nepal Himalaya – Limbu, Rai, Gurung, Magar, Thamang, and Newar. In quest of the high mountain people of Tibetan origin, he visited the northern-most homelands of the Lhomi Bhote of the upper Arun River, the Sherpas of Solu-Khumbu and Helambu, the Thamang of Ganesh Himal, the Larke Tibetans of Himalchuli-Manaslu, the Thakali of the high altitude transverse valleys in the Kali Gandaki region, and the Baragaun Bhote of the inner valleys behind the Annapurna-Dhaulagiri massif.
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