It’s not easy being a hippy. Even if embracing the flowing clothes, dangling necklaces, open sandals, and flowers in the hair is not too hard, there is all that sitting around, smoking dope, and staring into space. Plagued by a…
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The cantankerous conservationist
Maybe it was the only way to save tigers, but Billy Arjan Singh had a fearsome reputation for being crusty, cantankerous, and unwilling to compromise when it came to the protection of the wild places he loved and championed. Possibly…
Hiking with Jimmy
Little Sangjay was fascinated by the birds: brightly coloured tragopans, garish impeyan monals and strutting Chinese golden pheasants. His small fingers gripped the wire netting of their cage whilst the sunshine lit their feathers. The speckled grey guinea fowl fussed in…
Past Everest anniversaries
As the 65th year of the first ascent approaches, the mystery of a specially blended Chivas Regal is solved I know he’s an imposter.” The short wiry man with weasel eyes hissed loudly in the row behind me, his voice…
The Kathmandu crowd
The Valley in the 1970s was a haven for biologists, ethnologists and anthropologists It still stands, a rather plain large brick house whose once-spacious garden has since sprouted several new residences, cheek by jowl. Located on the corner of Sanepa…