This is a secret location, so I cannot say exactly where, but it's about a 5 day drive west of Kathmanud in Nepal. This villge is 500 years old and home to a rare group of Tamang people in the Himalayas. I go there somewhat regularly. The last time I met with several village elders. They said before me, there was said to be a westerner that came to visit in the 1960s, but some think he was Indian. If I'm not the first westerner to visit this village, I would be wildly surprised. It's amazing such places still exist.
These tents are part of our most recent expedition camp. We used two Defenders and a Mahindra Scorpio to access this place, which was not easy. The road is only 6 months old. I suspect it will eventually destroy this place. Half a century and a road will be its undoing.
The cone-shaped baskets are silos filled with barley and corn. Most homes have enclosures below where livestock are kept as this is prime snow leopard terrain. The surrounding area is an unbelievable area of Himalayan "hills." That hillside behind the village has more than 5,000 feet of relief....a "hill."
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