My first visit to Nepal was actually a five day ‘add-on’ at the end of my April 2012 Tibet journey, coming down by road from the edge of the Tibetan plateau; gradually losing altitude; crossing the Tibet-Nepal border at Jangmu; and then going on to Kathmandu. I did the usual touristic things there, visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, getting rather lost in Thamel, but all in all retained very little of what I did and saw as my mind was already saturated with vivid, kaleidoscopic impressions of Tibet. It was a full six years before I returned to Nepal n April 2018, with the sole intention of seeing Mount Everest from the southern, Nepali, side, having gazed upon the iconic North Face not once but twice from the Tibet side. The rest is history, so to speak. Photographing the mountains, the landscape, the people and the rituals as the year moves from Winter chill, through the brevity of Spring and Summer in quick succession, on into the endless Monsoon months, before emerging into the gold of Autumn—this and my writing have become my passion and my life!
- Cham dance in the courtyard of an ancient gompa near Jomsom, Mustang
- Looking out to the Annapurna range from Ghar Gompa, Mustang
- The all-seeing eyes of the great chorten of Boudhanath, Kathmandu
